NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Witness, Issue 3339, 13 March 1918, Page 37

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Penisula Road Board has fixed the dog tax a't 2e 6d per dog for the present year. The Waimate Hospital Committee discussed the menace disclosed by the cage of a venereal victim who applied for admission to the institution. The committee passed a resolution asking the Minister to hayp the Social Hygiene Act amended to provide fo< compulsory examination in suspected oases, under similar safeguards as are provided under the Lunacy Act. The formal opening of the session of Knox College took place on the sth inst. There was a good attendance of ladies and erentlemen, and the Rev. H. H. Barton presided, and mentioned that it was as far back as 1868 that the Church of Otago and Southland addressed itself to establishing a theological college. The pre-sesaional address was delivered by the Rev, r. F. Hunter, of Oamaru, who took for his subject "The Hope of Israel and ito Fulfilment." At a recent meeting of the; Nightcaps District Coalminers' Industrial " Union of Workers the following resolution was carried unanimously:—"That .this union views with alarm the state of the law as affecting miners as disclosed by the recent case of Watterson v. "Westport Coal Company (Ltd.). decided by 'iliQ Full Court, inthatth.9 said case shows that an injured miner, by accepting weekly payments under the Workers' Compensation Act, deprives him self of the right to claim damages; an< that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the Minister of Labour, the Minister c< Mines, and the member fop Wallace will a view to having the law amended during the coming session of Poj-liameni,"