FIRE LIT IN STATE FOREST

Southland Times, Issue 23179, 21 April 1937, Page 13

FIRE LIT IN STATE FOREST

YOUNG MAN CONVICTED (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 20. Cyril Christian Hayes, aged 21 years, pleaded guilty to lighting a fire without authority in Tangimoana State Forest on March 21, whereby 12 pines, valued at £lB, were burnt. He took some meat from a neighbour’s safe, and went into the forest and lit a fire to cook it. The police added that he was awaiting sentence on charges of breaking, entering, and conversion of a car. He was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months.

Elaborate decorations are being arranged for the Auckland railway station in celebration of the Coronation. Red floodlights will glow at night on the tiled roof, and the main face of the building with amber trough lighting at the clock level and amber floodlighting on the balustrade. Four 30ft panels of red bunting and five smaller panels of blue and gold, with a suitable centrepiece, will be draped over the main face. The Coronation colours of royal blue and gold, as well as red, white and blue, will be used extensively on other parts of the building, and native plants will set off the veranda decorations. Flags will be flown from three poles on the roof, and strings of code flags will run from the centre pole down to six more poles on the entrance and exit ramps. A large framed photograph of the King and Queen will be placed in the main concourse. The main decorative work is to be started early next week.

The remarkable efficiency of the St. John Ambulance blood transfusion service was demonstrated in a unique manner one evening recently, when a man was admitted to the Auckland Hospital in a grave condition sufferii.g from injuries to the groin and loss of blood (says The Auckland Star). It was an urgent case for a transfusion, and as all ambulance drivers are members of the service one was immediately given. Blood donors are divided into four types, and where an operation likely to result in loss of much blood is to be performed, arrangements are made for a member of the service with the correct blood “type” to give a transfusion. In many cases, however, where time is limited, the St. John Ambulance staff offer their services. In the particular case last night, the officer was a “type four,” or universal type, suitable for all patients, and a transfusion was able to be given with the minimum delay. The operation, however, was unsuccessful, and the patient died some hours later.