DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1923, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS.

lIJY TELCO RATH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] L) A MAG ES AW A R DED. DUNEDIN. Nov. 'J. At Die Supreme Court to-day, Keith Gough, by bis guardian, Joseph Gough, sued Ernest Edward Booth for £404 os, damages sustained bv plaintiff in a coilision with a motor car, plaintiff being, the rider of a bicycle at the time of tho accident. A jury of four returned a verdict tor £loi Ids (id, and judgment was given accordingly. CAR FALLS INTO CREEK. DANNEVIRKE. Nov. f>. A mail contractor’s car, driven ' by Patrick Green, when going to a Coast district, crashed into the hand rail of a bridge three mile- from Dannevirke, and fell into a creek. Green was pis»* lied underneath, but was rescued by a pa-serby. and i- now in Dannevirke Hospital with severe internal injuries. J. Kevanoy, the only passenger, e-capa with minor injuries, but i- now in tits

hospital with shook. A BOY'S DEATH. TIM ABU. November 9. An inquest was held at Pleasant Point to-day touching the death of a boy aged 3 years 11 months, the son of Eli A. P. Prattley. farmer, Totara Valley. The hoy had two toes crushed oil September 22nd, and had not been tn to a doctor till September 30th when the terminals of hi- toes were dropping off from gangrene. The father would not allow tho bey to go to the hospital then or previously, when advised by the I’iunket Nurse. On October Ist., tetanus developed and fifty-eight thousand units of ante tetanus serum were injected but were of no avail, the child dying the next day. Tho doctor gave a certificate emitting to report tho child's death to the Coroner. The Internal Affairs Department ordered the exhumation of the body and a postmortem examination of the latter show-

ing tetanus organisms were present on the stumps of the toes. The father of the child did not consider the injury sufficiently serious to consult a doctor - until a day after the accident, thinking treatment by the boy’s mother was all that was required. The Coroner found there was no criminal negligence though intense ignorance on the part of the father. It was stated that a year ago Prattley had a horse that died of tetanus. It was dragged over tho exact spot where the accident happened, and over which tin' boy walked to the house with his toe bleeding. The boy also hopped about the yard after the accident with his foot bandaged. DUNEDIN AY A TER SIDK TROUBLE. DUNEDIN. Nov. ft. Several momls'i's ol the Executive of the Watorsider-’ Union stated that the men wore quite willing to work the cargo to which they were accustomed, hut at the tinf the City of Birmingham arrived there hap]cued to he three wichmen short, and others were called upon to do the work. The men called upon wave unused to such work, and refused to handle the oil. Certain men wore accustomed to certain classes of cargo. .Some, for instance, never handled coal, anil other- oil. It was on account ol those men's refusal that the employer- blocked the port to the watorsider-. It had been announced that no mure labour would be engaged until the City of Bormingham was worked. Th" wint-rsidoi s strongly resent the omplnyoi-’ attitude, which they consider high handed, and they are treating X

it as a lock-out. THE ELLESMERE NEAT. CHPJ.STCUUItCH. Nov. 0. In response to an invitation from a deputation representing Reform voters in the Ellesmere district, Mr David > Jones ‘Chairman of the New Zealand Meal. Producers' Board) lias agreed to contest the Ellesmere Seat at the next general ‘election. Tho request was made because the sitting Member, Sir Heaton Rhodes, will not he a candidate at the next election. In agreeing to contest tho seat Mr Jones said that at the last election he had not been defeated h> any party, but bv a combination of Liberal and Labour Parties. He could easily have beaten any single party in the Ixniapoi Electorate. A THEFT CHARGE. PALMERSTON X.. Nov. it. Herbert Syntes, clerk to Pointngiiifl County Council, was arrested to-day on a charge that, on or about May 23rd. 1923. he did steal £lO9, the property of the Council. He appeared in the police Court this afternoon, and was remanded till Friday next, hail being granted, self in C3(>9 and two sureties of £lnff^ RECORD EQUALLED. CHRISTCHURCH. Nov. 9. At the East Christchurch swimming carnival to-night. C. Herd equalled the Australasian 210 yards breaststroke record. Time 3min. oxee.