IN THE LINE OF

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 594, 27 July 1933, Page 4

IN THE LINE OF

AN HXCITINQJ HRALTH PFFICER Afji> j • ■ RgSTRUCT#J WOMAN ®1 j 4" ngongotaha iNcnj Some excitement . Ngongotaha on Tuesda/d foHowing the Yefusai of i Maori woman to permii rt, U I ficer, Mr. H. H. Mar|| move her grandson sufferW I mfectious disease to hosiJ services of the police J order -to carr'y out the J provided for ' in the' Healtkl " "When the health'-officer j led'h'y Constable Andrews J the shaclc oecupied % jy and her married grandson ty the 'grandmother guard J ed entrance to the shack J uncertain terms she Vefused! mit the removal of -the patieJ hand over the key to % j either officer. Tfiey/ howevj likewise determined to carryj duties'atid to do this Gdnj drews found it necessary J the woman from the doorl much struggling the protd . man was removed and as shJ fused to hand over thekey tli| officer was instructedhy the e| to smash the door open withl which was lying close by, j The work of preparing'fte] for the journey in the ari took nearly thirty minutesl ing this time the constablel jected to a good deal of ab| the woman while her cries had] ed a large number of interestj tators. I When the patient was being] to the ambulance on a stretel the woman had been releaa parting shot was to throw pj wood at the departing officialJ "He'll die, he'll die."