GALLERY NOTES

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 239, 6 September 1928, Page 6

GALLERY NOTES

day in parliament. POLICE DEPARTMENT’S REPORT. (By Telegraph*—Special to Standard.) ( y WELLINGTON, Sept 5. The police report states that the oifences in the Palmerston North distiioi. for 1927 totalled 1359 as against 1212 n 19*6 Of these 1317 were dealt with either by arrest or summons. The retort states that the conduct of the police’for the year has been very good and their efficiency well mamtaiiicd REFUND OF ST AMI DLIY WANTED. ' The petition of Chas. H- Illston and another, of Oroua, asking for a refund of stamp duty on an agreement of sale and purchase nob completed, nor ci.uried into effect in any way, was before the petitions committee and lias been referred to the Government for favourable consideration. ADDITIONS TO OTAKI HOSPITAL. A tender has been accepted for the proposed additions to the Otaki Hospital. In advising Mr A\ .H. I leld (Otaki) to this effect in the House of Representatives, the Minister of Health (Hon J. A. Young) stated that the hospital would contain eleven general and four maternity beds, and would lie administered by the Palmerston North Hospital Board, in accordance with the intentions of tho Hospital and Chantable Institutions Act. “1 can assure the member,” added the Minister,. that the hospital will be utilised on lines set out-in his question.” Mr Field had suggested that the hospital be fully equipped and brought up to date and conducted as a district or cottage hospital, and that the ordinary beds be fully used for treatment of less serious cases of illness and accident, the more serious cases going to tho central hospital at Palmerston North. MOTOR VEHICLES WANTED.

“Tho time is approaching when a squad of motor cyclists will be required at each of the principal centres of population,” declared the Commissioner of Police (Mr W. B. Mcllveney), in his annual report, presented to Parliament to-day. “With tho trend of modern transport making for considerable rapidity of movement,” the commissioner said, “it has become essential for the members of the Police Department to have at their -command for immediate use in connection with the detection and prevention of crime high-class and high-powered motor-cycles. For constant and imperative supervision and inspection duties by the commissioned officers, to expedite the performance of their general work, and for emergency requirements of the detectives, suitable motor-cars are indispensable. An increase in the number of those at present in use is very urgently required.” PETITION FOR COMPENSATION.

A recommendation that the Government should give favourable consideration to the petition for compensation by Mrs S. H. Murphy, of Pahiatua, was presented to the House of Representatives by the education committee. Mrs Murphy’s son sustained fatal injuries as a result of an explosion in the science room of the Pahiatua district high school, in February, a piece of glass penetrating the boy’s abdomen. Mrs Murphy is a widow, and her petition was supported by 38 representative men in Pahiatua and Wellington.