LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 16 July 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

ndecent Assault At a sitting of the Levin Court yesterday Adolphus Donald Sineock, of Wellington, appeared before Messrs. D. J. Gardiner and G. Sweetman, J's.P., charged with indecent assault on a male at Levin. Tle pleaded guilty and was eoininitted to the Supreme Court, Wellington, for sentence. Sergeant W. Grainger appeared for the police. English Pedigree Cattle Seven pedigree cattle brought to New Zealand in a special pen on ihe deck of the freighter Tekoa. which arrived frqm London on Saturday, survived a cyclonjc storm in the South Pacific although the ticavy seas smashed the pen which had to be repaired during the storm. The cattle were in excelient condition. Three Ayrshire heifers and one Ayrshire bull are for Auckland, and three Aberdeen Angus bulls are for Wellington.

Orders for Penicillin Orders for more than- 2000 million units of penicillin have been placed in England by New Zealand and licenses for the export oi a limited quantity have been approved by the British Ministry of Supply. It is hoped that imports from ' Great Britain will provide better stocks in the Dominion, which has so far found it impossible to build up more than a two weeks' re.serve. New Zealand iias been importing the drug from Australia at a rate of 200 million units a week, but rriost of this has oeen distributed as it arrives. Sudden Death An inquest was held at Levin on Saturday by the district coroner j iMr. J. S. Moir) into the death of | Piahana Te Hiwi, which occurred Suddenly at Manakau on July 12. Evidenoe showed that deceased, who was otherwise normal and heallhy, had complained of a headaehe the day before his death, and had remained in bed. Next day his condition grew worse ond he died on the arrival of a doctor. 1 A post rnortem conducted by Dr. T. i II. Fuller, pathologist at the PalI merston North Hospital, revealed that death was due to spontane-. ous subarachnoid haemorrhage. I The coroner returned a verdict in ! accordance with the medical evi{dence.

' Greek Doctor Rattles, Qn j "I cion't know if the, doctor is d good doctor or a bad one. I don't I know if he leans towards the Royalists or the Communists, and I don't care either," writes a CORSO Reiief worker in Greece describing a visit he paid to one of the rare towns in Macedonia which boasts a Greek doctor. "I do know that he has a seven-bed hospital at his Public Pharmacy in a partly detnolished building, that he and his daughter and a small band of helpers are running it under extremely dillicult conditions and that ihe day I saw him his face, arms and hands were covered with eczema, and he should have been in bed. It was four-thirty in the alternoon, and he had a queue of patients waiting in the hali outside* with another lot squatting in l'ront of the building. To me he represents the many Greek doctors who have stayed on with their communiti'es to do what they can." Progress of Road Mapping '"I'here are few people, who do not respond to the mute appeal of a map," said Mr. W. A. Sutherland, jecretary of the Automobile Association (Wellington), in the course of a talk to the Levin Rotarv Club

yesterday. "It has always been a feature of my association's activities to prepare information suitable lor the traveller in Ihe form of maps and descriptive matter. It should also to some extent be the function of the local body, with a view to attracting the traveller or visitor." Mr. Sutherland traced the mapping of countries from its start, dealing in particular with Ihe contribution made by John Ogilby in his mapping of two English counties in 1650. He said that some of the signs adopted in those maps were still in use to-day, and in fact research revealed the rather remarkable fact that very little progress had been made in the manner in which maps were drawn.