MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1923, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. STATIC MEDICAL, SRLYICE. London. o<t. is. A (risi.- has developed in the Stale Medical Insurance system. Tin: .Minister of •icnlth recently roj*\*ted the panel doctors’ request ior nrljitration on his olfer to mince their ice hy one shilling io 7s (Id, i lie rejection led In ;i meetino of doctors in l.ondon. It vns convoked hy tiio Insurance Acts Committee of the British Medieal As. Miciation. Two hundred were present, representing the wlmle nt Britain. The meeting unanimously rejected the olfer. This is expected to held to the resignation of the doctors, who are credited with an intention to launch their own medical service. The approved sureties yesterday decided to resist any call on their muds beyond a leu of *s Ad. BID TEX NTS V ENT C BE. WELLINGTON, (let. 1!) Tin Wellington City Council lias decided to allow the Wellington Lawn Tennis Association to take over tlio whole of 11 .V acres of ground at Miramar. at a rent of Clio per year for the lirxt live years; CIOO a year for tlie next Co years: and then it is to revolt to the Council. The improvements the Association intends making include <■> courts. It uill spend C. 0.000 in the next live years, providing the finest tennis eottris in Australasia for the

international and Dominion tournaments. AN I\QLEST. WANE ANTI Oct. 17. A coroner's inquest was held in the Wanganui Hospital concerning the death of floorer Knowles, aged if. a innate of the .luhiloe Home for Aged Men. The deceased, it was thought hurt himself on a harbod wire fence, his throat and hands bring covered with blood. The matron of tho home bandaged his wounds, and while she was doing so. the injured man admitted that lie lmd ( lit his throat with a razor. The man was removed to the hospital v here the medical officer found an ini i.-ed wound on his neck, two inches long, extending into the upper part cl hi- windpipe, and almost severing it Tin. deceased developed septic pneumonia following the infection, the result of the laceration of the throat. This was the eiinse of death. A verdict wits returned accordingly. SLY OBOE AND “DOUBLES.” AUCKLAND, Oct. 10. In the Police Court. Alfred Newman ami his wife, Mary Nev. man. were charged with selling liquor without a license at their lodging house. Newman teas fined lifty pounds, or a month i. default. The woman was convicted and discharged. Miles Bhukie was lined ten pounds tor belling in a factory, laying doubles among his fellow employees.