WILL LAST TWO YEARS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22570, 25 February 1948, Page 3

WILL LAST TWO YEARS

WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE (P.A.) AUCKLAND. Feb. 24. The world will be acutely short of food for the next two years. New Zealand’s greatest contribution will be

to increase her dairy and meat producing industries to the utmost. These points were emphasised by the director-general of the Department of Agriculture, Mr. E. J. Fawcett, who returned today after more than a year abroad.

Hand Injured in Machine A young single man, Mr. Joseph Hamlin, was admitted to the Wairoa Hospital on Monday suflc”'’ l '' >m severe lacerations of the right hand His condition is now reported to be satisfactory. Mr Hamlin was operating a fleshing machine at the meat works of the Swift (N.Z.I Company, when his hand was caught in the machine. It was feared at first that he would lose all the fingers of his right hand.—S.R. Escort Duty for Nurses The desirability of ensuring that priority of travel was assured for the return of nurses to their hospitals after having given escort duty to female patients travelling to mental institutions was stressed by Mrs E. R. Scott at Monday's meeting of the Cook Hosr pilal Board. Members of the board were in full agreement on the principle that where possible nursing escort should be given to such cases, and authority to give the service was conferred upon the medical superintendent, Dr. R. J. B. Hall. The danger that escort duty might involve unnecessarily lengthy absence of nurses from their normal duties was regarded seriously, and it was agreed that the police be informed that speedy return would be a condii tion of the assistance offered. PARENTS SENT TO PRISON.—Found guilty by a jury in the Wanganui Supreme Court last week on three charges of endangering the lives of their three children by failing to provide them with the necessaries of life, Arthur Henry Major, aged 34. mattress maker, and his wife, aged 24, jointly charged, were sentenced on Monday h<> the Chief Justice. Sir Humphrey O’Leary. The male accused was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment with hard labour on each charge, and the female accused to three months’ imprisonment without hard labour on each charge. The Chief Justice commented that were it not for the peculiar circumstances the female prisoner would have received the same sentence as her husband.