HOKITIKA NOTES

Grey River Argus, 8 September 1939, Page 2

HOKITIKA NOTES

[Our Own Correspondent]. HOKITIKA, September 7. Air mails for Far South Westland are in future to close here on Fridays at 7 p.m., and to be delivered on Saturdays. The County Council meeting has been postponed a week from Tuesday next. Successful Hokitika candidates in the Royal Academy of Music examinations, the result of which have now been received, are Miss Mona La;fserre, grade 3, pass; Miss Elva Bade and Miss Betty Barltrop, grade 1, pass. All candidates are pupils of Miss M. Davies. The following West Coast Badminton team has been selected to play a Canterbury team at Christchurch next Saturday:, G. Sutherland, V. E. Thomas, A. Stevenson, J. Butland, Mesdames Thomas and Stevenson, Misses Sandman and O. Stapleton. At the Women’s Institute monthly meeting, Mrs. Wilson gave a talk explaining air raid precautions she observed last September in Scotland, and Mrs. Cameron and Miss J. Stevenson gave a talk, while a marionette show was staged by Mesdames Millen, Burrows, Graham and Ashley. Competition results were: Best bloom, Mrs. Ashley 1, Mrs. Parkhill 2, Mrs. Millen 3. Vase of flowers: Mrs. Ashley 1 Mrs. Parkhill 2, Mrs. J. Preston 3. I

At a meeting last evening attended by 70 persons, under Red Cross auspices, it was resolved to set up a committee to be called the Hokitika First Aid Committee, in view of the war emergency, and the following members were appointed: The Mayor, Mr. G. A. Perry, Drs. Wilson, Aitken, CorTian and Childs, Miss Anderson, Sister Gillespie, Mesdames G. A. Perry, F. Fane, Wilson, Mycroft Miss H. Perry, Messrs P. R. Whitford, F D. Gillespie, H. Lawn A. C. Armstrong, B. King, J. G. Johnston and T. W. Duff. The Mayor (Mr. G. A. Perry) was appointed chairman, Mr. P. R. Whitford, deputy-chairman and Mr. F. D. Gillespie, secretary and treasurer.

Eleven ladies who passed an examination in Home Nursing, signified their willingness to undergo a refresher course in practical work at the Hospital each Saturday. Thirtyfive present handed in their names for instruction in first aid, and a similar number for instruction in home nursing. Hokitika Sub-Centre donated £25 towards the funds of the committee to meet preliminary expenses. It was decided to commence classes in the Soldiers’ Hall on Thursday, 14th instant at 7 p.m. At the inquest on the late Thomas Stickle, Mr. A. E. Benjamin. Coroner, found that he died at his home, Johnston’s Lane, on September 1 from heart failure. William H. Stickle, cycle dealer, son of deceased, said his father was 70 years of age, and a native of Green Island, Dunedin. At 1 p.m. on September 1 witness arranged to go with him to a doctor in the evening, but when he next saw him at 6 p.m. he was dead. He had’ a fall last April and was ten days in hospital, and had complained of stomach pains. Arthur W. Yarrall* said he saw deceased almost daily, and on September 1 he had stated himself to be unwell. Witness took him a bowl of soup at 1 p.m. and saw him at 3.30 when he said he had enjoyed the soup and would see a doctor at 7 p.m. James Millner said he visited deceased's hut at 3.30 p.m. on Sep-| tember 1, but he was absent, while at 5.40 p.m. he found deceased dead I there, sitting on the bed. Dr. B. L. Wilson said that on examining the organs of deceased, he found indications of an old ulcer in the stomach. 1 and in the heart the blood vessels and ’

valves were stiffened and calcereous. The coronary arteries, supplying the heart muscles showed similar changes. There was a large pale clot of blood lying in the chambers of the heart, and death would be due to heart, failure, associated with the formation of the'clot. The cause of the clot would be the poor circulation of the coronary arteries and this condition has been progressing for years.