LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 20 July 1925, Page 9

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the ordinary meeting of the Hawera Hospital Board to-day >a- iletter was received from Miss E. B. Young, whi> recently acted for two months as matron during the absence on sick leave of Sister Lockhead. Miss Young acknowledged the cordial thanks and generosity of the board for her services. She said she was “very glad to have been of assistance to the board, and had enjoyed her stay in the hospital, everyone having co-operated to make things smooth and harmonious.”

Madeline Monica Doyle, aged sixteen years, collapsed and died after having been placed under gas in a dental surf gery at Rangiora on' Saturday morning. She was to all appearances quite strong and well and came out of the gas norm, ally, but almost immediately afterwards she collapsed and died. Doctors used artificial respirations for an hour without avail. Miss Doyle was operated on at the Lewisham Hospital two months ago, but made a good recovery. . Developments in Burke’s Creek coal mine have proved that coal lives down, says a Reefton message. A dip in this mine is down 720 feet, and th e coal is hard and improving, equal to the best in the Dominion. It is intended to continue the dip to prove the field further. Much interest is being taken, as the results, are proving contrary, to general opinion. A noticeable feature among the immigrants who arrived at Auckland by the Rimutaka was the large families. There were several of four, six, and nine children, and a.ll were healthy and sturdy-looking youngsters. The largest family was that of a man who is taking up the land- and he could call 14 children as his own.

A car driven by Mr J. O. Laing collided with, a horse and gig driven by Mr Wm, Fitzsimmons on Saturday night at the corner of Argyle street and South road. The horse ivas cut and minor damage done to the car, hut this was the extent of the damage. The death occurred in the Auckland public hospital on Saturday night of Cecil Dane Shepherd, a labourer, aged 33; who fell from Winstone’s jetty, Customs Street West, into the water yesterday morning. Deceased, who was partially blind, was employed as. a labourer at the Blind Institute, Parnell. He had been delivering goods and was standing at the end of the jetty. He tripped and fell 12 feet on to a ‘cargo of telegraph poles on the deck of the scow Hero, and he rolled into three feet of water. He was rescued by. a seaman from the scow and taken to the hospital, where death ensued. — Press Assn.

With reference to the proposed reduction of capital in the Waihi Gold Mining Co., Ltd., the attorneys at Auckland have received the following cablegram from London : ‘ ‘The result of the recent voting shows that a considerabe majority of the shareholders are in favour of an immediate reduction of capital by 5s per share. As English law courts are closed for the long vacation, application cannot be made until October. Meantime, during the English autumn, general meetings will be convened in order to consider and, if thought fit, to_ pass necessary resolutions to give effect to the shareholders’ wishes.