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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 March 1944, Page 4

Notice of his intention to move for a return showing the number of doctors receiving in excess of £BOOO a year from the Social Security Fund for medical services, and the towns in which these doctors are located, has been given in the House of Representatives by Mr. D. C. Kidd (Opposition, Waitaki).

“T|iis is an accident which might happen in any home with young children, and I want to emphasise the necessity for parents never, to let up in their efforts to prevent children from going near electric stoves or other apparatus connected with a flex,” said Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., j when concluding an inquest at Auckland into the death of a child aged one and a-half years. Evidence* was given that the child, John Henry i Spiro, of Avondale, was found lying unconscious on the kitchen floor of | his home near the electric stove. An electric plug, without flex attached, which had been inserted in the hotwater point on the range, was partially pulled out, and there were slight electric burns on the fingers of the child.