DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 October 1924, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS.

[I)Y TELEGRArn —mil I’RESS ASSOCIATION. .SHIP'S CREW'S COMPLAINT. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. i\ The steamer Progress is detained at Lyttelton for want of a crew. Her articles expired tu-da.v, and the crew refused ta sign on the new articles, giving as t.beir reason that in the past tbev had received insutlicent loud.

When the seamen and firemen came ashore in Lyttelton, they declined to sail in the .ship, and the agents this evening communicated with the charterers. Holm and Co.. Wanganui, and it is expected satisfactory arrangements will be come to to-morrow, and the vessel will get away.

DR At'KKNZIE’S ACTION. AUCKLAND. Oct. 1. An application was made to-dav by Dr Henry Duiulas AlacKenzie at ti.e Supreme Court, to have evidence taken in England and America in connecti.in with Hie proceedings brought by the .Medical Board ta have him struck off the register of Aledieal practitioners. ; AL* Dickson, solicitor for Dr MneKcnzie. said the lI.ALA. had instituted proceedings on the ground that Dr AlacKenzie had been guilty of infamous conduct, inasmuch as that, for the past four years, lie had practised an allegedly scientific molhoil\j£ diagnosis am! treatment, known as the Electronic Reactions of Abrams, in such a manner as to show that lie could not honestly have believed it reliable or usolul in tlie cases llu* which lie employed it. The Prosecutor, apparently, was going to show that it was fraud. I lie defence would call evidence that it was being used by some of tlie most eminent men in medicine in England and America. To prove Hie Imnafides of Hie treatment, there was already a Society formed in Auckland, the members of which could testify to the Abrams treatment as magnificent. Air Meredith, in opposing the application. said that approval had been given by the Attorney-General to the action taken by tlie Aledieal Board. Ho quoted a case in which it was alleged Dr AlacKenzie told a woman she had cancel-, wln-n sin* bail not. and used Ibis machine for the purpose of getling money. In another ease, he took a drop of blood from a lady, ami told her she bad cancer, and, that lie could cure her. She was. in fact, suffering from boils in the ear. The Judge reserved bis decision.

THRASHING FOR ROY. GISBORNE, October I. A -fifteen year old hoy appeared at the Juvenile Court, charged with having unlawfully converted a motor car to his own use front a stand in town. The police stated the owner left the ear on a private' stand outside the theatre, hut it disappeared, and later was found abandoned. The hoy • had driven the car into the country and haclc. llis parents Stated he was getting beyond control and inclined to he headst rung. The Magistrate (Mr l.evvy) said he did not think probation would be much use. The hoy wanted a good thrashing. The father of the hoy said he wished llis Worship to order a Hogging. The Magistrate said he could not order a Hogging, bul if the faLlior gave liis sou a sound thrashing, that would he taken into consideration in imposing tlm sentence. The' father agreed, and the Magistrate remanded the hov until the totlowing day so that he could give the lad a good thrashing.

A YOUTH KUIHDEK. AUCKLAND, October 1. Albert KL'hhs was found dead this m»i inivg. at Maungataubin Ynlley, near I’ohena on a farm owned by Robert Lyons. Deceased was aged twenty. lie took poison. 'I lie Coroner rotiiriif. 1 a verdict of suicide while temporarily deranged. Previously it was reported that deceased was Boh Lyons.