GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 June 1924, Page 7

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

OPEN-AIR SCHOOLS. (by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, June 25. The principle of open-air schools was approved to-day by the North Canterbury Hospital Board, which unanimously passed the following motion: ‘‘That this Board expresses its appreciation of tiie earnest endeavour now being- made to promote and build up the health of school children and thereby strengthen their power to resist diseases, by incorporating into the building of: new schools provision for benefits that can be obtained from sun, light and fresh air.” V.D. CLINIC. CHRISTCHURCH, dune 25. During the last month there were 719 attendances at the venereal disease department the Christchurch General Hospital, representing 148 patients. Tweiity-sovtMi patients were new. MASSEUR FINED. CHRISTCHURCH, June 25. Edward Jennings, a registered massear, was fined £5 at the Magistrate’s Court tor a breach of the Medical Practitioners Act, in that he implied by advertisement that he was a icgis-t-erecl specialist in women’s diseases. The -Magistrate. -Mr Wyvern Wiison, said that in his opinion the defendant had been holding out wrongly as buying special qualifications for the treatment of women’s diseases. A man who advertised in the wav Jennings had done was a menace to the community.

£750 DAMAGES. GISBORNE. June 25. ( In the case Percy AY. Bushuell v. Geo. H. Rufiett and C'o.. the jury returned a verdict for the lull amount claimed. £750. This was a case where Bushnel! exchanged sections worth £IBOO for a house owned by G. R. \Vvlie, on the understanding that M.vlie wanted £2259, whereas be afterwards ascertained that AYylie only wanted £ISOO though Bushnell’s sections went to a third party, John Cedric Nesbitt, who claimed that be gave only £709 for them. Bushuell suggested that Nesbitt was only a dummy to transfer at the direction of Chas. F. Busche and Clias. Parker, the former of whom, an undischarged bankrupt, had transacted the exchange between Bushuell and AYyllie.