DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

DUNEDIN MATERNITY HOSPITAL

(By Telegraph—Press Association).

AAH'LLINGTON, Sept. 6,

The ■ Government has given approval to a proposal that St Helen’s Hospital, Dunedin, at present under the control of the Health Department and the Batchelor Hospital, under the control of the Otago Hospital Board, shall be replaced by a combined . institution under the Otago Hospital Board, for administration purposes, and of the Otago University for teaching of obstetrics. The new hospital will ' enable the standard of instruction to be raised.

HOUSE BURNT

GISBORNE, September 6

A cottage owned by E. R. Renner, of Refongaere, occupied by C. Earle, a sharemilker, was destroyed by fire. Mr Earle was absent and his wife had some difficulty in rescuing six small children.

ROTORUA DELAYED

AVELLINGTOX, September 7

The Rotorua, which was expected this morning, has wirelessed bad weather delayed her and she will not arrive till to-morrow. The change in the command of the New Zealand warships will therefore not take place till to-morrow.

SAVINGS BANK RECEIPT.

WELLINGTON, Septerii ber 7

In consequence of an edict ‘by the Stamps Department, that the -withdrawal receipts from the Savings Bank must be stamped, it is stated the Auckland Bank hits instituted a 'new form which is not a receipt and it is approved as exempt. No action has been taken so il'ar by the authorities in Wellington. It is understood a ministerial statement will be made.

DRAINAGE LOANS

AA r ELLINGTON, September 7

The Board of Health is becoming uneasy at the frequent applications by the Wellington City Council for auth-’ ority to raise drainage loans without a poll. With another application for '£38,000 before them they pointed ■ out the Council had raised £400,000 in the last few- years'. They did not approve of these piecemeal applications ond felt that drainage requirements should be dealt with on a comprehensive basis and that the ratepayers should first be consulted except in cases of emergency. ( The application, however, was grant-, ed. HOUSE DAMAGED BY FIRE. . DUNEDIN, September 5. As the "result of '-'an outbreak of 'lire which' originated from' an electric iron being left unattended, a five-roomed wooden house in Glen Road, occupied by J. A. Patterson, was badly damaged this morning. NEW -COAL MINE. AUCKLAND, September 5. The first truck of coal from the recently opened Avoca mine was. delivered to the Northern Wairoa Dairy Company’s factory at Mangawhare yesterday. It is expected that when the. seam is properly opened up about twenty or thirty men will be employed. The mine is being worked on the co-operative principle by eight men from Hikurangi, who had been out of work owing to the flooding of the mine there. The Mines Department has mnde a grant of £450 towards metalling the road. THEFT OF OVERCOATS. GREYMQuTH, September 7 John McLean and Richard Ashton, members of the crew of the Tees, .vere each fined £3, in default seven days for theft of overcoats from a Blakitown dance. INQUEST VE-KDICT. HA AYER A, Sept, 7. A verdict of accidental death was returned at an inquest yesterday on Maurice George Trilford, the o-year old son of Mr and. Mrs AV. G. Trilford, of Ohangai, who died at the hospital on August 31ft. as the result of injuries suffered the previous evening, when a fancy dress costume the child was wearing, caught fire. The child was to attend a children’s fancy dress ball, and was being dressed in a woollen costume to represent a snowball, when it came in contact with a candle. Both mother and father were burned on the hands while endeavouring to extinguish the flames, the father eventually plunging the child into a bath oi water, A EIRE. CAMBRIDGE, Sept. 7. At 5.4,5 this morning an outbreak of fire occurred in Victoria St. in a block of two-storeyed concrete shops, occupied, by Mrs Howden (Milliner and Ladies Outfitter),' being badly gutted and practically the whole of her stock being destroyed. Good work on the part of the Fire Brigade prevented the fire breaking through into a men’s outvoting shop next door occupied bv It. taghorne. The cause of the fire was through an electric heater left with the current on all night, that burned a hole through the flooring. The building was owned by Mrs A. T. AA’atson of Hamilton. Mrs Howden’s stock and nttings were insured for £450 in the South British Office.