DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1924, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[bv TELEGRAPH—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. SEA VIEW MENTAL HOSPITAL. WELLINGTON. August IP. In the annua! repot t of the Mental Hospitals Department. Dr. Buchanan reports ns follows in respect to the Hokitika Mental Hospital: The number of patients on the register at the beginning of the year was “12. At the end of the year there remained gP/i. made up to 171 males and (PT females. There wore IP admissions. It) discharges. and l-A deaths during the year. The general health of the patient- has been good. Since my last te|ort. I.ove Brothers have been building the Male Reception >• og of the Admsision Block, and a central administration block. 'Hie p'omale Wing, built bv ourselves. lias been completed for some months now. with the exception of the | lumbitig. ! hope to have both wings in working order by the end of June, IP2I. An old building which stood on the site of the above, has been removed, renovated and set up as a small Fever Hospital. I he large recreation ground has been completed. This will l.e of immense benefit to the ] atienf s. The appointment nl a sister who has qualiiied in both mental and general training, to take charge of the now block, is a most important innovation. ’I lie tiainiiig of the nurses will naturally Ik* more comprehensive and the nursing of the sick and new admissions "ill be centralised. This cannot bill be ot immense benefit to all concerned.

ANOTHER EIRE .Vl' WOOI.STON TANNERIES. CHBISTCHIRCH. Aug. I! 1 . Eire to-night destroyed the fell mniigery eropp shed and tali baric -led at the Wool-on Tanneries, it being the third tire this year, the previous outbreaks being in JaniE'iy ami Atird. Large quant it ic.- of gluecose. oil. skin-, wool, and other commodities were 10-t. Tile only parts ol the huge premises now not touched bv lire are t’c glove and bide departments. Since the nrevioits outbreaks, the c\-i-ting buildings have been us'd for storage purposes, and at pre-cut il is not possible to say accurately what habeen destroyed. The insurances amount to a large sum, but were mu available at a late hour to-night. WOOI.STON TANNERIES IN-TH-ANTES. (III! IS I t HITCH. Aug. 20 The total insurances involved in the Wool-ton Tannery tire amount to L-A-A.O').! in the l.nudnli and l.anea-hire Office which has largely reinsured. Thi- is (he third disastrous lire at the tanneries this year. ANOTHER CIIRISTC HEIR II .KIRK. Cl I RItsTCI 11’RCI I. Aug. 20. While nearly all the available iiivmen "ere engaged at the Woolstoii tannery lire late yestereve. an outbreak "a- discovered in Ridley’s building, of three storeys, at the corner of Liehllchl and Mam he-ter streets. Ihe lire at one stage threatened the destruction of the building, but was subdued alter several hundred pounds worth of damage to the stock of various tenants had been done. ( lIRISTCIIFRCH CHEMIST MNED. ( lIKISTt 11 FILCH. August -0. The Magistrate this morning lined D. E. (ilamille. :i eliemist. £2 and eo-ts. on each of two charges under the Opium and Poison- Ait. in respect of thi' sale of laudanum. ALLEGED THE El. DI'NKDIN. August 20. Alexander Robert Kennedy. Registrar of Births. Death- and .Marriages was charged al the I’oliee Court this morning with i licit ol C 72. the propertv of the llovern incut. the money being alleged to have been taken he. tween A’U'il ami Augu-t. A remand was granted till Augu-t 21i1h.. for the Auditor's reliort. Bail wa- not asked

SUPREME COURT. CIIRrSTCIIURCII SENTENCES. CHRISTCHURCH. Aug. 10 At (it,. Supreme Court this morning the following pri-micis wen' sentenced : Thomas Moody, for theft, breaking and entering, three years’ impri-on-litciit. ami declared a habitual criminal. •lames .10-cpli l-.oycc. tor breaking, entering and tin'll, three years reformative treat men! ■ Walter John Chamberlain, indecent assault on a woman, seven year- imprisonment, Judge Adam- remarking that lie would impose an exemplary punishment. Samuel McDonald, for tilt'll from a countryman who was taken to a b.u b and duped, received two years’ gaol. Minnie Brown, for the t hoi t ol Cl! from a man. ib.ee year-’ reformative treatment. Will red Rowland Wihley. for Inrgcry and uttering, three years gaol ami two years’ reformative treatment. Owen Patrick l!io-nalm. tor the til,.lt of a fur coat valued at Cl I. received two year-’ gaol and was declared a habitual criminal. an interesting CASE. NEW PLYMOUTH, August 20. \ case of great importance to the dtiirving indust.y was heard at the Supreme Court this morning, involving tlie ownership of a milking plant in a bankrupt estate. The District Assignee claimed it ns part of the assets, while the mortgage claimed it as a fixture to the freehold. The plant in question was bolted ,|.,u a to a concrete foundation.

On the Chief Justice’s suggestion the case was removed to the Appeal

Court lor argument. PORT NELSON. August 20. Sailed at noon Kailua for Westport.