CHRISTCHURCH NORTH ELECTION

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1215, 25 August 1911, Page 5

CHRISTCHURCH NORTH ELECTION

RETURN OP TUB WEIT. (By Telesraph.-Press Association.) Tk tit • Christchu|, eh, August 2.J. .the following nre the flnnl figures of the xewat election for Chiistchnrch ft/Ordl :— ... L. M. Isitt 3,826 ' J - D. Hall 3,108 Majority for Isitt ...... 718 Informal 42 ' "Nidi" writes:-"! vas Ihe witnesi of «n occurrence in a public thoroughfare yesterday about which I think somethin" ?" s -iif m° bo faicL An visitor to Wellington was seized with an epileptic nt in Manners Street. He was togged into tho State coal-yards entrance, and there one of tho police placed a lead-pencil between the sufferer's Wth, while after a deal of waiting another officer went to summon a cab and a doctor. Thinking no more of the matter I passed on.' 1 probably would have thought nothing more about it, but happening to pass tho place again half an nour later, I was shocked to see that' tho man was still struggling on tho ground in the middle of a crowd of onooijcrs. and nothing was being done savo to Isold Ihe man down No doctor had tu-rned up, and there did not appear to bu anybody who knew how to trea* an epileptic in such a plight. As tho officers or the law nre now compelled to tako a itrst-aid course, 1 would' suggest that he subject o primary, assistance to sufierers from fits and in particular epileptic, be included in tic course' ? or micntly 'the man was removed to ihn Manners Street Polico Station/'

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