DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 15 December 1937, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS

[Per Press Association], WELLINGTON, December 13. A resident o£ Day’s Bay, Miss Ada Lilly Howden, aged about 52, of Pitoitoi road, was drowned while bathing at Day’s Bay. Her body was seen Lloatin'g face upwards about 40 yards offshore by a girl aged 14, Millicent vickey, of Kelburn, who swam out and dragged it to the beach, where she applied artificial respiration until the arrival of further assistance. Efforts to revive Miss Howden were unavailing. She had been suffering from a weak heart for several years. TIMARU, December 13. A woman, aged about 30, whose name is unknown, was found seriously ill in a vacant section at the corner of King Street and Princess Street, Timaru, about 9 p.m. on Sunday. She was discovered by a young man, who was passing by. Dr. R. D. King was called, and he administered an injection; but without result, and she died soon after. The wor :•£» is thought to be a stranger to .naru. She had probably been in Timaru for a day or two, and is known to have been in Christchurch and Dunedin. AUCKLAND, December 14. Contemplated staff changes at the Auckland Hospital were discussed when a deputation from the honorary , staff waited upon the Minister of Health (Mr. Fraser), to-day. The I memorandum presented by the deputation referred to the proposal by the Hospital Board to appoint two fulli time stipendiary directors, one of ■ surgery and one of medicine, and to ■ dispense with the medical superini tendent and replace him with a lay i manager-secretary. The reasons for seeking the assis- • tance of tne Minister were that the l proposals were drastic, and vitally i affected the work of the clinical staff; that the proposals were hastily passed by a small majority of the Board, and that unconsidered haste was being evidenced in putting them into office and that no opportunity of consultation with the visiting staff was offered [ by the Board. 1 Mr. Fraser, in reply, said that he j would refer the matter to the Direci tor-General of Health, and the Aucki land Hospital Board, with a view ol - getting the maximum efficiency oi t service. INQUEST ON MOTORIST. 1 DUNEDIN, December 13. s “There was no other traffic about ai -> the time, and the only explanation ol the occurrence is that there was lacl

of alertness on the part of Wilson, said the Coroner, Mr. J. R. Bartholomew, when giving his verdict at tne inquest to-day into the death of Joseph Reginald Wilson, aged 32, of Umaru, who was killed when the car he was driving struck the pillar of a safety zone in Princess street. shortly after midnight on November 25. “It appears that Wilson was also travelling at a fast speed,” said the Coroner, whose verdict was that Wilson died of laceration of the brain, caused by the impact between the car he was driving and the safety zone m Princes street. The report of Dr. E. M. Elder, who examined the body, said that there were injuries to the mouth, the teeth being broken, and extensive abrasions of the chest. In his opinion death was due to laceration of the brain caused by a heavy blow on the mouth. Constable Black, who arrived on the scene shortly after the accident, said the centre of the bumper on the car had struck the pillar with terrific force, the framework being knocked a distance of 39 feet. The engine was pushed back into the body of the car, and the speedometer, which had been broken, showed a speed of 45 miles an hour. ' CANCER. WELLINGTON, December 13. Dr. Cecil P. G. Wakeley, one of the foremost surgeons of England, | with Professor A. Huggett, an eminent English physiologist, arrived by the Awatea, to-day, to conduct fellowship examinations at Dunedin, for the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He said that treatments by radium or X-ray are both so local in their action, further X-ray generally caused such debilitation and anaemia of the patient that the treatment was devitalising. The curei for cancer would probably come oy some agent injected into the bloodstream, which would pass through all the tissues of the body, and eradicate any secondary deposits which ' may be far distant from the primary > growth. “At present, in London, we are experimenting with an extract from the parathyroid gland, and so far our results have been encourag- : ing,” he said. “It was too early to ■ dogmatise on the real efficiency of • this extract, but some really good re- : suits have been achieved in some ■ cases.” Dr. Wakeley and Professor Huggett will leave for the South to-morrow night, and after completing the examination work at Dunedin, will make a short tour of the North Ist land before leaving for Australia, f where they have already conducted < examinations on behalf of the Royal

College of Surgeons. They will fly to India and Egypt for examinations there, before returning to England. ROMANTIC STORY. AUCKLAND, December 13. “Oh, those reporters!” said Miss Millicent Fisher, of Auckland, when questioned on the arrival of the Monterey concerning Saturday’s Sydney cablegram, in which she was the central figure in a dash to catch the Tasman liner, to take advantage of “a cabled invitation to marry an Auckland businessman.” “That’s quite enough,” said Miss Fisher, who is young, attractive and reticent. She declined to announce the name ox the businessman concerned. She admitted to have been quite in a rush to catch the ship. She had been holidaying for some time in Australia, and left Melbourne for Sydney on the Manoora, the captain of which, because of a cablegram she had received, speeded up the vessel to reach Sydney with half an hour to spare. . t Miss Fisher was among the first passengers to leave the ship in Auckland, and in the Customs shed she was joined by a group of waiting friends, but of the man who might have looked the male lead in this romantic story, there was no sign.