DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 September 1944, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS

AIRMAN KILLED WELLINGTON, September 13. i Pilot Officer Truby Edward Dodgs/iun, whose mother - is Mrs G. E. Dodg'shun, Gisborne, was killed instantly at a South Island air station yesterday, when he walked into the propeaor of an aircraft which was caxi-ing up to a hangar.

WELLINGTON TRAMS. a WELLINGTON, September 13. All trams were stopped shortly after noon to-day, for the stop-work meetT ? ey ex P e cted to be manned afternoon’s homeward

SOUTHLAND MINE CLOSING, mi Ti INVERCARGILL, Sept. 12. -inc Mossbank coal mine will close down on September 23, according to a notice posted at the mine to-dav. The employers refuse to make any "statement at present, but it is suggested m another quarter that the mine is being closed because it is an unecoP r °P°sition. It is believed that the Government has suggested that the men should run the mine on a cooperative basis, but approval has not been given by the miners. The daily output ol the mine is about 100 tons About 50 men are affected, and it is stated that it will be almost impossible to absorb all of them in other mines under present working conditions. DOCTOR’S APPEAL WELLINGTON, Sept. 12 The Appeal Court to-day was engaged on the hearing of an appeal against the decision of the Chief Justice (the Rt. Hon. Sir Michael Myers) at Auckland on July 17, directing that the name of George Brownlee Isdale,of Ngaruawahia, medical practitioner be removed from the medical register.

For the appellant, Mr. G. Skelton Auckland, said that two questions arose.

The first, he said, was whether the words “infamous conduct” in Section 22 of the Medical Practitioners’ Act, 1914, included conduct amounting to an indictable offence punishable by imprisonment with hard labour for two years or upwards. He submitted that the two nrovisions authorising the Medical Council or the Court to strike off—that a medical practitioner - was guilty of grave impropriety or infamous conduct in any professional respect or if he had been convicted of an indictable offence punishable by imprisonment with hard labour for two years or upwards—were mutually exclusive. The second nuestion was whether the evidence in the present case established guilt, having regard to the standard of proof required. Argument along these lines was heard.