DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 26 February 1944, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS

HOSPITAL BOARD LOAN. DUNEDIN, Feb. 25. The Otago Hospital Board decided last evening subject to the approval of the Local Bodies Loan Board, to accept the offer of a Wellington firm of sharebrokers to provide finance for bonds of a £200,000 loan at 31 per cent. BAY OF PLENTY FLOODS. AUCKLAND, Feb. 25. Reports from Rotorua -state Te Whaiti has had severe flooding, some houses being almost covered by water. Women and children have been taken to safety by settlers. The rivers mainly affected were the Rangitaiki and Whirimaki. Both rose without warning. Stock losses are reported to be heavy. The Whakatane paper mills are in no danger. Operations are continuing as usual, but a temporary, shut-down may be necessary because of lack of coal and wood, resulting from the washing away of the bridge. WOMAN’S SUICIDE. DUNEDIN, Feb. 25. The evident accessibility of a certain drug in quantity, on production of a prescription, was commented on by the Coroner (Mr. Bundle) at the inquest into the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Elliott Gillespie Millar, aged 60. Deceased, had been in ill-health, and told a taxi-driver she intended to commit suicide. The police saw her and she then denied any such intention, but the same evening she was found unconscious in a street, clutching a bottle of hypnotic tablets, and she died in hospital. Other bottles of tablets were found in her purse, some of which were given her by a friend, who had secured them on a doctor’s prescription. A verdict of poisoning through overdose of drug, self administered, while in a state of depression, was returned.