CHARGE OF ASSAULT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 415, 26 January 1909, Page 7

CHARGE OF ASSAULT.

r ■■; SCENE IN A'-SICK^TVAIIP;;-•■;■:•;•'■ (by TBißPßAPii—spi(;u% l lcppn?|rßspßNT l ).i'. i ';; •. Auo'k'lana,;January;^.: : Considerable',interest.has.. > be«n,:aroused at' Rotorua by a charge of-.assault against a • Jliori' named Galvin, preferred by Dr. Bor.tram, of the sanatorium..:: 'Tho, evidonco showed that the Maori took.q.,phild suffering .from pneumonia to the sanatorium; r.Tho child was in a critical,, stage,-..and Galvin came to it bo given up .for him;tovtake.'.away, • The" -doctor declined, and Galvin rattempted ;to ■take the child out of its bed. On the doctor intorposing; the Mtvovi tho assault complained of, and a "mix-up" occurred, during which tho two men fell on the bed of a female patient. '■.'■''.'... ■ • . i '■■■■. .Tho Bench pointed- out-.that.the. matter, was a serious, one, as thoisanctity of 'the hosv pital wards, must bo maintained. - Although evidence had been given to show, that it. was a Nativo custom to take siqk.peopld,homo to dio among their friends,, such could not be allowed to override the rulos of the hospital or the orders of skilled medical men. A fine was inflicted,, ~ 7 : - . .'-..v..