DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 February 1928, Page 1

DOMINION NEWS.

i.) Telegraph— P°r Press Association.] EXPERT TREATMENT FAILS. HAMILTON, Eeh. 23. A married woman named Rohda n Rollings, wife of a railway employee, To Kuiti, died on the operating t p table at the Waikato Hospital this ( morning. 1 lie case was a particularcl b’ difficult one and Mr Victor Honney, an eminent London surgeon, who is l_ attending the British Medical Con- [ ferencc here, had been asked to perI form the operation. FARMER’S SUICIDE. AIASTERTOX, Feb. 23. Robert -McGregor, aged 38, a farmer <d Upper Plain, Mastcrton, was found ' dead near his homstead this afternoon with the top of his head blown oft, and a shotgun beside the body, j Deceased who had suffered from ill health for some time, bad been lie ing alone, bis wile and two young children being in Scotland on holiday. EDUCATION OF PARENTS. 1 HAMILTON, Feb. 23. 1 Ihe British Medical Association 1 Conference was continued to-day. It was decided to hold the next conference at Wellington. in an exceedingly interesting address ou peurpernl sepsis. Dr Victor Bouncy, an eminent London surgeon, referred to the necessity for a wider knowledge among doctors, nurses and the lay public relative to child birth. He said that this great problem really resolved itself into a matter of education of the people as to their own responsibility, but the medical practitioners of New Zealand would do best to help them. BOOK-MAKER FINED £4O. NEW PLYMOUTH, Feb. 22. Richard Miller pleaded guilty at the Police Court to-day to a charge of keeping a common gaming house at Urenui, and was fined £4O. Detective Meiklejohn described how the police took possession of accused’s billiard saloon, and found evidences of 120 hots having been made, and that £B4 15s had been taken in two days. While they were in possession, two I persons inquired hv phone for bets and information. Miller said lie was taking bets in a small way as an agent. RAILWAY APPEAL BOARD. WELLINGTON. Fob. 23. As a result of the first election of Ihe Government Railways Appeal Board, the following are gazetted as elected members: V. R. J. Stanley (first division) ; M. Connelly (Traffic and Stores Branch) ; E. J. Dash (Maintenance Branch); F. J. Lewin (Loco Running Brandi) ; E. Cameron (Workshops Brandi). COAL CARRIAGE. WELLINGTON. Fob. 23. If prices can he arranged, New Zealand ships are to have the opportunity of carrying the coal which is to he supplied [from Australia, under the recent contract let by the New Zealand Government Railways Department. ’This decision of the contractors was placed by the Prime Minister (Rt. lion .1. G. Coates) before a deputation which waited on him to-day in con- ( nection with unemployment among ( the ranks of men who followed the sea as a Ividihuod. j PRESS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, Feb. 24. Mr A. G. Henderson of ihe “Lyttel- j ton Times” was elected Chairman of the Press Assn, for the present year. j MAYOR OF CISBORNE. j GISBORNE, Eeh. 24. Obituary.—Mr C. E. Armstrong, Mayor of Gisborne, and formerly Dis l triet Engineer of the Public Works j.Department. j €