DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 19 March 1941, Page 10

DOMINION NEWS

HOSPITAL OUTPATIENT TREATMENT PALMERSTON N., March 17. After a discussion in committee, the Palmerston North Hospital Board decided to-day to enter an emphatic protest against the manner in which the agreement was made between the Minister for Health and the Hospital Boards’ Association for outpatient treatment under the Social Security Act, and requesting the association to call a. conference so that the proposals could he openly discussed by members of the association at a properly constituted meeting., WOMAN’S SUICIDE NAPIER, March 17. An episode in which a young child was induced by a woman to pull the trigger of p gun which the woman had placed on a table pointing towards her own head wa's the subject of an inquest held by the Coroner (Mr J'. Miller). The child, a girl, told the Coroner hew, at the instigation of the deceased woman, Murial Lillian Waldon, she had pulled the trigger on a number of occasions, which it had only “clicked." On another occasion, when the child thought it was unloaded, she had pulled it, as asked by deceased, and it had fired. The Coroner remarked that the woman was of unsound mind, and had killed herself by placing a rifle on the table and, while standing in front of it, inducing the girl to pull the trigger, the girl herself being entirely innocent, a's she was under the belief that the rifle was not loaded. RAILWAY FATALITY PALMERSTON NT, March 17. William Jones, aged 71, died from injuries suffered when he was struck by an express train at the crossing in the Square this afternoon. Jones, who was walking, waited for one train to pass, but apparently did not see another approaching on a parallel set of rails.