A STARTLING EXPERIENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1926, Page 3

A STARTLING EXPERIENCE

AUCKLAND, Feb. 10.

When the steamer Rimu was outward hound'from Onehunga to Knwhia and Raglan on Thursday last. AA'illiam Downey, the chief cook, aged 50, had a startling experienti?. The Rimu was crossing the Afanakau bar when a sea swept the deck and swept Downey over th,.*' side and then a huge sea following landed him on the deck again with three ribs broken, and his right leg. severely injured.

AIEDICAI. CONFERENCE. NELSON, February IG,

The annual conference of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association commenced in Nelson today and will continue until Saturday. At the conference papers on various subjects will he given, followed by a

discussion by Dr S. A. Gibbs, ol Nelson. who is the president-elect. A civic reception is being accorded the delegates at the Council Chambers this afternoon. Tn the evening the delegates will he the guests of Dr aiid Airs Gibbs at an “ at home” at Velma Hall.

ABSENCE OF CRIME. BLENHEIM, February IG. At the Supreme Court to-day Afr Justice Ostler was presented by the Crown Prosecutor with a pair of white gloves as a symbol of the clean sheet. The judge congratulated the district on the absence of serious crime in Marlborough.