LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19384, 20 July 1926, Page 10

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Suffering from a fracture of the left leg, Mr. Robert Robinson,' of 14, Omahu Road, Remuara, was admitted to the Auckland Hospital yesterday morning. The injury was received through falling from a ladder. When looking down the well of a goods lift Mr. Frank Hobbs, an employee of Radio, Limited, Fort Street, was struck on the head by the lift which was descending. He was severely bruised about the head and received a deep cut 011 the lower lip. The St. John Ambulanco was summoned and he was admitted to the Auckland Hospital suffering from shock. Mr. Hobbs .was staying at 131, Grafton Road, his residence being in Te Aroha Street, Hamilton. Heavy seas on the Manukau Bar confined the steamers Arapawa and Ngatiawa within the harbour yesterday and they were still sheltering late last night. The Rarawa, which left for New Plymouth yesterday afternoon, managed to cross, but received a buffeting before reaching open water. The sea was going down rapidly last night, and the other two vessels are expected to get away early this morning. A further number of healthy young persons who would be willing to act as donors of blood for transfusion in emergency cases is required by the Auckland Hospital Board. The names on the board's list of donors are constantly changing, but the list at present includes six names. Several persons have donated blood 011 a number of different occasions each, and in no case has the donor suffered any ill-effect. It is only occasionally that blood transfusion is necessary," and relatives and friends then sometimes act as donors. A fee of £2 2s is paid to the donor for each transfusion. The message sent to the Prime Minister by the passengers from Whangarei who were stranded at Maungaturoto on Monday night of last week owing to the wash-out on the railway line that followed the storm has been acknowledged by Sir. Coates in a telegram to Mr. Cubitt, commissioner of the North Auckland Progressive League, of which the following is the text: "Appreciate your telegram, and am glad to learn that railway staff at Maungaturoto rose to the occasion. Will convey your message to those concerned." The amount of £5 9s subscribed by the passengers to the railway social fund at Maungaturoto is to be devoted to internal furnishings at the hall. Active steps to take advantage, of the authority which has been given for medical students to carry out their final year of study at Auckland are being taken by the Auckland University College Council. A conference of representatives of the hosA conference of representatives of the Hospital Board, the hospital staff and of the council is being convened by the council for an early date when Setails of the scheme will be discussed. The Hon. George Fowlds, Mr. Kenneth Mackenzie and Professor H. W. Segar were appointed the representatives of the council at its meeting yesterday. A request for support of a protest against the use of power-drawn fishing nets in the Waitemata Harbour was received by the Onehunga Borough Council last evening. Mr. W. N. Mcintosh moved that the Government should be asked to define a line outside the islands of the gulf, inside which no "trawlers would be allowed to fish. Speaking with an intimate knowledge of the harbour as far as Waiheke for 60 yfe&.rs, he maintained there was plenty of room - for the steam trawlers in the outer' waters ,of the gulf without going inside the islands to detroy the fishing in tljQ few. square 'miles of sheltered water which could bo reserved for privatp line-fishing. The trawlers not only made a clean sweep of the large fish, but the small fish were often dead before they could be thrown into the water again. The trawlers also disturbed the mussels and other shell-fish on the feeding grounds, besides destroying the spawn. If this continued it would not be long before private fishing was absolutely destroyed at all the holiday resorts in the harbour, whereas no hardship would be inflicted on the trawlers by requiring them to go into the outer waters, where private boats could not go. The motion was carried. Three members of the Don Cossack Choir did not leave Wellington for London by the Ruahine on Saturday, having decided that New Zealand was a good, 'country in which to settle. Two of them intend to go milking on shares as a preliminary to farming. Sheep-worrying by dogs in the Matangi and Te Awamutu districts has caused farmers a good deal of concern during the last few weeks, and in many cases considerable losses haye resulted. With the lambing season commencing there is a likelihood of the mortality being still higher if the nuisance does not cease. Poison has been laid for dogs on the majority of farms. "The cigarette smoker who partakes of the weed while in bed is a menace to the community," was an observation made by Superintendent J. Williams at a fire inquiry at Wanganui last week. The coroner. Mr. J. S. Barton, S.M., said he agreed with the superintendent, and stated that 1 once, while travelling on board ship he and another passenger were in the same cabin as a bed cigarette smoker. Ignoring protests, this man smoked in bed, and one morning Mr. Barton woke up and found one of his shoes completely burned by the butt of a cigarette. "Cigarette butts are more dangerous than lighted wax matches," said the coroner, "and I agree that the man who smokes in bed is a source of nuisance to fire brigades." The almost incredible tenacity of a 12-year-old Maori boy of Waitara was revealed the other day. The boy was a member of the Waitara School Rugby football team selected to play the Inglewood School. He arrived on the Waitara railway platform just in time to chase the train out of the station in a valiant but unsuccessful attempt to join his fellow team members. Nothing daunted by missing the train the boy set of! 011 foot for Inglewood, thirteen miles away, and the pace at which he covered those miles may be imagined from the fact that he arrived in Inglewood in time to play with his team, and, incidentally, to play a dashing game. When a witness was asked to produce his bank pass book at the Wanganui Court last week he requested that his business affairs be not divulged to the Court. Mr. J. S- Barton, S.M., remarked that the witness must answer all proper questions. He must not make conditicuis on which his evidence would be heard.