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Grey River Argus, 13 August 1935, Page 5

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NEGLIGENT HOSPITAL TREATMENT. (Per Preus Association.) DUNEDIN. August 9. In the Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Kent ly upheld the appeal of Matilda Hewi against a magisterial decision and a. wed her claim for £l4l from the S h Otago Hospital Board for negligen treatment by one of the nursing staff. Conns- for the respondent admitted t the case was governed by the dec in the case of Logan V. the Wait • Hospital Board, and that the nurse w s performing ministerial, or routin luty for which het employer was responsible. AIRMAN FINED. FLIGHT WITHOUT LICENSE. Wanganui, August 12. Maurice King, he Wanganui aviator. was fined 21 ch on charges of flying an aeropi: Wellington from Wanganui and . •.< k without a license, and with also not bei: g the holder of a pilot’s license. Mr. P. Dickson in the defendant said he believed It wa< the firet case of the kind in New Zealand, but the Magistrate, Mr iSaimmi, said he recently had two eases at Otaki. King had held livens. - for two previous years, and on those occasions, the Defence authorities had sent out notices to pilots and forms of applications. This year, it did not do so. King underwent his medica. examination, and when he made application for a license subsequent to the Wellington flight, was told that the license would not be issued until the case had been, heard. Counsel remarked that it almost savoured to some extent of victimisation on the part of the authorities, and pilots were perturbed about the matter. Had the notices been sent, all local pilots would have made application in the proper time. The Magistrate said there was noth in the regulations requiring notices to be sent, and the onus was on the pilots to renew.