LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 25 August 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Safety Rlag Lowered The Junior Chamber of Commprce's safety flag at the Bath Street-Oxford Street intersection has been lowered to half^mast as a result of a fatal accident at Foxton on Friday. Shortage of Nurses The nursing staff of the Waipukurau Hospital has a strength of 54 qualifiecl members, The normal establishment is 80. There are three aidsand one relieving registered nurse engaged in part-tjme service. The daily average of occupied beds for patients for last month was 85, Collision With Cows A fortunate escape from serious injury was experienced by Mr. F. B. Dunstan, of Kairanga Line, on Saturday night when the car he was driving came into collision wth two cows about one mile on the Palmerston North side of -Awahuri. Both cows were killed and the car received extensive damage. Primary School Rugby The quadrangular rugby tournament between the primary school representatiyes of Horowhenua, Wairarapa, Hutt and Wellington has opened at [Masterton. Horowhenua drew with Wellington nine-all, Williams and Harwood scoring tries for Horowhenua and Bonner kicking a penalty. Hutt beat Wairarapa by nine points to three. Traffic Breaches A total of 1245 breaches of traffic regulations were reported during the "road safety week" just concluded in New Plymouth. This does not include countless warnings by traffic officers over loudspeakers or parking offences for which tickets were left. Motoring offences totalled 452. The most common faults were failing to signal (156), failing to give way (44), and speeding (46) . A check on lights on two nights showed that only about 2\ per cent. cojnplied completely with the requirements. CJiinese Killed When the 'cyple he was riding was. invqlved in a collision with a motor car on the Himatangi-Fox-ton highway at about 7.55 p.m. on Friday, a Chinese market gardener, Yoe Hing Lay, aged 48 years, of Himatangi, received severe injuries to whch he succumbed shortly afterwards, The car was driven I by D. G. M. Kilgour, jeweller, of I Palmerston North, and the acci- : dent occurred about four miles on ! the Himatangi side of. Foxton. Lay i was dead when the police arrived | at about 8.30 p.m. ! Visiting New Zealand j Three prominent Australian ! clinicians representing both the I Australian School of Dentistry and j the Australian Dental Association ! arrived at Auckland by flying-boat I on Saturday to deliver papers .and j lectures at the 39th annual conferI ence of the New Zealand Dental ' Association at Auckland this week. The visitors are Dr. E. Johnson, examiner in prosthesis for the master's degree and post-graduate lecturer at the University of Melbourne, Dr. C. D. Hearman, lecturer in preventive dentistry at the Dental Sehool of the University, and Dr. R. G- Williams, senior lecturer in charge of the Department of Periodontia. at the school.