TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1922, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

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PLUNKET SOCIETY. WELLINGTON, July 25. The Hon C. J. Parr, 'Minister of Health, to-day opened the biennial conference of the Phniket Society. lie paid high tribute to tlie work being dene by the society, and said that ho hoped the annual infant death rate of j.'.0,; .would soon he reduced to jQpp. The Government last year had to t. t out vote s for 19 other deserving organisations, but the Plunket Society had not been touched and he trusted that its good fortune in this respect would continue, although lie hoped this society would not ask for an increase. The society and lie were co-workers in safeguarding the health of the rising generation. The society was doing valuable work in preaching the gospel of health. The Minister also referred to the good work done at the summer school camps hold for the benefit of illnourished children. Dr Trubv King said that- it was perfectly feasible to reduce the infant death rate from 1500 to 1000 a year in a few years, and said that there would ho far less need for hospitals 6 tile people understood more about conserving their health.

PLUNKET SOCIETY. WELLINGTON, July 26. At the Plunket Society’s annual conference a. motion was passed with a view to putting Karitane hospital on a better financial footing, hv making everv branch from which a patient was sent', responsible for the payment for that patient. , , It was also resolved that medical advisors be appointed to certify to the fitness of cases In enter the hospital, as an instance was given where babies

as an instance was give.. »»y.s were sent to the hospital, when they should not have lieen, and the authorities could not turn such cases away. A sub committee was set up to drawup recommendations as to the nurses duty in the house and relation towards other children in the family. Hr Truhv King said with regard to the supplv of emulsion to branches, twenty tons a year was now being manufactured at Seacliff and arrangements were being made whereby this would he considerably increased if only the branches would have patience.

FATAL ACCIDENT. WANGANUI, July 25

The Wanganui police to-night wore nflvwed that an old man, about eighty years of ago. was struck by a train at Pntea station and killed. The deceased had a ticket from Thermion to Patoa. A bank book was in his pocket, but did not contain any name.

REV. FATHER O’REILLY. WELLINGTON, July 26

Rev. Father O’Reilly, of Blenheim, lias lieen appointed Provincial of the Almist Order in New Zealand, vice Dean Holley, who resigned owing to ill-health. Father O’Reilly was for some time manager of St. Patrick s College, Wellington, ami was born in ! Hokitika. .

SEVERAL DRAPERS CHARGED. TIM ARB. July 25. Half a dozen Tirnaru drapers were prosecuted to-day by Mr Arnold, Inspector o' Shops and Offices, under section 31 of the Shops and Offices Act, requiring suitable boating appliances to lie provded. The principal contention of the i i-osecufion was that the Act required that provision he made for “the comfort and health of employees.’' 4Y. D Campbell, for the defence, stated that, the temperatures disclosed ■® to 1 degrees, which was not prejudicial 'o health. Dr Talbot, of the Doaprtimnt of Public Health, Cambridge. also gave evidence to this effect.

Several shopkeepers testified that heir fiiplo.vees had never been ill

through cold. T)r Tel'‘ord. Medical Officer in Canterbury, (-(scribed the physiological effects I chills, and pointed out how these were liable to he contracted by employe's. Most of the defendants had made provision subsequent to the informal 3m having been laid, lint only one was said by tlie Inspector to lie satixlV-t i"/. Two were partially so. Magli ralc Mosley said be would take the ,i|nrtiinity to examine the •appliances 'i'd effects in the shops, and reserved Ins decision.

AX AMATEUR EXPELLED. CmUSTCIiCIICTT. July 25. C ..M. Walden, the well-known amateur runner, appeared Indore the Can-t(.|-!n:ry Centre of tltc New Xenland Amateur Athletic Association to-night to answer charges of having on various occasions l.et ween October and March in Australia competed at athletic meetings under an assumed name.

H allien (leiueil I lie allegations, innafter an ilit|iitm had been held by the CVnlre, in- was ileel.ire-1 to have forfeited his a naletir status. A lady, whose name the Chairman requested should mil he published, gave evident - ! 1 as to having seen Walden running at a night meeting of the Victory Atldelie Club al Maiyiiriiumg near Melbourne, oil Februiury Rth. Walden ball inn till that occasion, she said. in a cash event under the name of C. Willis. W'alden llatlv contradicted the ladv’s statement and declared lie bail never run in any event in Australia, either as a amateur or as a professional. The chairman produced a letter from the secretary of the Victory At! letie Pr jprictary 1 Db. who Gnlc 1 Walden had run on I lie proprietary ground, out of Melbourne, and ha he believed, also run at Stowell. The chairman said, under the centre’s decision, Walden would now he debarred from competing in any amateur atldelie event in the world. WOMAN CANDIDATE. AUCKLAND. July 2G. A meeting of women, about four hundred .being present, selected Miss Melville, a member of the City Counoil, to stand for Parliament to eontest either Parnell or Roskiß seat. Miss Melville announced she would stand as an Independent, voting with the present Government in a lio-oon-fidcnce motion, though the Reform leaders would not support her.