Points From The News

Northern Advocate, 15 July 1938, Page 6

Points From The News

'IJNBER the Nurses and Midwives’ Regulations, 1938, issued with the Gazette, the hospital examination for pupil nurses at the conclusion of their first 12 months’ training is to be replaced by a State examination conducted by the Nurses and Midwives’ Registration Board. A FARMER. Mr William John McX Laren, aged 35, married, ox Waimatuku, Southland, was found dead in a wash-house, with a bullet wound in the forehead. There was a rifle found beside the body. * n » >t the Supreme Court at Christchurch yesterday, Mr Justice Northcroft reserved judgment in the case of the Public Trustee against the Guardian Trust and Executors’ Company of New Zealand, concerning the claim of the former for £8450 paid out by the company to legatees of the £60,000 estate left by the late Miss Elizabeth Smith. ;* * * * BUTCHER’S assistant, Gerald William McWhirter, aged 43, who was stated to have been a representative cricketer and footballer. was sentenced in the Wellington Supreme Court yesterday to six months' imprisonment with hard labour for forggery and uttering, committed at Palmerston North two and a-half years ago. A SHIP’S fireman and grocer, Christopher Leo Michael Spellacy, aged 50, was sentenced in the Supreme Court at Wellington yesterday to nine months’ imprisonment, with hard labour, for bigamy. It was stated that he married a French woman in Liverpool in 1913, and had six children. He went through a form of marriage in 1928, and lived happily for ten years in Wellington. There was one child. * * v T. A N intention to contest the Western X Maori seat at the General Election as an Independent Labour candidate has been announced by Mr Hamiora To Hira Karewa, a farmer, of Hauraki.