DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1927, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

| (By Telegraph—Per Press Association. PUBLIC! TRUST OFFICE. CARTERTON, Dee. 21. At a meeting of the Carterton Borough Council last night a discussion arose over the question of Public Trust Office methods and the following resolution was passed:—That this Council endorses the resolution passed by the Paten Borough Council, and expresses entire disapproval of the remark made at the meeting of the Associated Cliamiver of Commerce at Cliristelmreb recently and that in the opinion of this Council, the Public Trust- Office is one of the most beneficial in the country for the community. SHORTAGE OF MEDICAL MEN. CHRISTCHURCH. Dee. 21. Owing to the small number of junior medical men available for the coming year, the Hospital Board decided to make inquiries in .Melbourne and Sydney with a view to filling probable vacancies on the staff.

.MOTOR DRIVER. CHARGED. PALMERSTON N.. Dee. 21

At the Police Court Frank Lawrence Farr, a taxi proprietor was committed for trial on a. charge that being tlx* driver of a motor vehicle, ho did drive such vehicle negligently, thereby causing the death of Jeriniah Bro—nan. The latter died from injuries received when knocked down by fiarr s bus.

U XEM PLO Y MENT POSIT lON. AUCKLAND. Dee. 21

.Members of Auckland Hospital Board view with alarm the present unemployment position and heavy drain on the Hoard’s resources for charitable aid. 'flic Chairman stated at yesterday's meeting that twenty-two thousand were placed on the estimates for relief, hut that sum was already spent with four months of the financial year still to run. He anticipated such expenditure would total £30.000 by March 31st. The Board had commenced the year with £II.OOO overdraft, and would finish with one of £30,000.

.Mr M. J. Savage, said they should draw the Government’s attention to the matter. There aero five hundred able-bodied men in Auckland at Xmas unable to find work, and surely that was not the Board's responsibilities. The Chairman said lie had been unable to get into touch with .Mr Coates, but would see him on his return to Auckland.

-MEDICAL OVERHAUL. CHRISTCHURCH. Dee. 21

ThaL persons of middle age should have a yearly medical overhaul, is the recommendation made by Doctor Fenwick, officer in charge of the Radium Department at the Public Hospital, lie says in previous reports lie lias frequently mentioned that many patients apply for treatment only when their disease is so far advanced that neither surgery nor radium can do more than alleviate their condition. He urges that in an annual examination unsuspected diseases would lie detected and prompt treatment might effect a cure.

ROY LOSES FOOT. BLENHEIM, Dee. 21

A boy named Erie Clifford, aged nine years, got in the way of a mower driven by a lad named Scott, the knife almost severing the foot. The sufferer was hospital led. It was necessary to amputate the loot at the ankle.

BETTER FAT. HA AVER A. Dee. 21

Owing mainly to the final bonus of last season’s b’lttorfat. the monthly payout yesterday constituted a record in the history of several Taranaki Dairy Companies. The two largest. • lolls and Ilawe i a distributed £II.OOO and C 33. Dll) respectively. Over the district between Pa-tea. and Opunake the payments totalled £29,000.