TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 November 1921, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

LIIV TEI.EGItAPII — PER PRESS ASSOCIATION MOTORIST ACQUITTED. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 17 The second trial of Archibald l.lovd taxi-driver, for the alleged manslaughter of Kathleen Mary Archer, aged 12, was held to-day. The accused was acquitted. BREACH OF PHARMACY ACT. WELLINGTON, Nov. 17

The decision in Ihe ease of tbe Pharmacy Boat'll againsi (ox Gordon, to recover a penalty for alleged breach of sec turn 38 ~f the Pharmacy Act, I tins, was delivered to-day in the Magistrate’s Court.

Defendant uas the proprietor of two chemists' shops in Wellington, and on each are the sinus “Cox Gordon’s Pharmacy.” He is not a registered chemist, but employs a registered man. The Magistrate decided to convict, but as the case was a test, and defendant had enrolled a manager, lie indicted only a nominal jK-nalty of 2<ls with costs.

RIFLE SHOOTING. DOMINION MEETING CANCELLED. WELLINGTON, Nov. 17 A deputation representing the Dominion Rille Association waited on .Mr .Massey and llie Defence Minister today. to ask for re-nmsidci at ion of the decision In cancel the Dominion rille meeting next year. A number ol members of Parliament were present. Mr Marshall, president of Hie New Zealand Rille Club's executive presented arguments againsi the cancellation mainly on lines of those cited when the deputation mol the Minister of Defence last week, lie also read a teicgiam from Gnoral Russell wishing the deputation success. Mr Massey said that lie was fully sympathetic with rille clubs, but the cancellation of the meeting was the result of a Cabinet decision and could not be reversed olilv by Cabinet. RcircnchnicMi was necessary, lie would uni promise an.ithiug. but Cabinet would consider ibe matter. THE RAILWAYS.

HALF YEARLY RETFRNS. WELLINGTON. Nov. 17. The Railway Working Account showing the revenue and expeiidituie for tiie period from April Ist to October 15 1 1 1 is published in the Gavel lc.

The revenue Dualled fit, 170.000 for the half year, against. L3,33'J.l 15 for the corresponding period of last year, being an increase of LUI.SSI.

Tile expendil lire was L'3,53 1.9-7. as cmnpaicd with LL'.Sli I,HP!) last yem. The details of the return arc as bilious; Last year’s liguie - - arc given ill parenthesis. N.utb Island: Revenue ~L2,1155.295, (L2.1H11 ,9t!7) : expenditure L'l .9(17.5(15 1' 1.577.1 lid).

South Island: Revenue L’1,31)3,71: L’l ,3117,178) ; expenditure L'1,577.121 LI. 28(5,933).

Grand Total: Revenue—l3,47o,ooß. (C3,3f1!»,l 15) : expenditure L - 3.535,!K"). i fj.si; i,i)o!i). The totals slum that llie revenue for the six monthly periods, though larger than last year, has fallen short of the expenditure by L'ss.!hS, where lor the same period last year there was a prolil of L'535,l ld.

STRIKE ON THE AIOKOIA. WELLINGTON. Nov. It

I lii tlm .Miif'islrute’x C out t to-day, Mr ! .1. K. Wilson, S.M., imposed linos ul ■ LT> null mi 21 stokehold luinils I'm tnkino purl in u strike oil iln* steamer I .Mnkniii, ul tin- time nl ilit* jorke.vs : dispute. Tin- linn I derision hail I'rrii ; ili P rioil, pendiii*; mi appeal liy one 1 wlio liiul been previously miivicloil. ! AC<TI)KNTAh DKATII. ! DI'NKDIN, Nov. 17. ! At tile iticpiost on Albert Wilson. ' who iliutl us it, result ol' falling into u till) of Uoilino water wlion employed at the by-products works at (Iroen Island on Nov .7th.. a. verdii-t of aeeidentnl death was returned. srniKMK conn’. * CIIRISTCIinU’II. Nov. IS. At the Supreme Court. Allred Caynes. extradited from Australia, was •sentence,l to II m,mills for obtainin'.' Cl.doS fmm K. A. I.nnoford, a builder, by false representations. I Thomas I,nun and I'Yederiek Da,re were each lined Cod. in delimit, mouths imprisonment- for bookmakin,'. Kaeli were oiven a year to pay the line, the sum to be paid in ijunrterly instalments.

MEDICAL PROFESSION

AUCKLAND, Nov. 15. The growth of specialisation and team work in the medical pmlessiou was tho subject of comment yesterday by Mr

Kenneth Mackenzie, in an address at the Rotary Club’s gathering. The adoption of team work, which came into prominence during the Great. War, be said, was the outcome of realisation that, a specialist, however highly quaillied. was apt to lake a. one-sided view' of li ease. At least two of the great London hospitals had established teams, at the head of one which was an Aucklander. Mr C. C. Clioyce. Teams had also been made up in private plai t ice. The growing popularity of medicine as a profession was referred to also. Speaking of the possibility of the health of

lilt* |>llf)|ic UCIIIJ4 Sliruiiiliuni in iniuif by a periodical medical examination of the whole community, lie said apparently there would very shortly lie an ample supply of doctors to undertake even such a great) work. Medical schools 11,,11.,1Mn11 i lie i’himire were filled as

(■•hey neve,' were before. Probably there wero at present a sufficient num-

ber of New Zealand students in training to replace the whole medical profession of the country ill less than ten years, and the active life ol a doctor was a good deal lunger than the period inent inur'd.