NEWS BREVITIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 77, 22 June 1927, Page 1

NEWS BREVITIES

Dental Clinic. —Luring 1927 a total of 7,798 patients, 6,115 of whom were children, and 1,683 adults, have been treated in the Auckland Hospital Dental clinic. M issing Bank Book. —Thomas MacGregor, aged 53, appeared at the Police Court this morning and was remanded for a week on a charge of stealing a bank book. Want to be Nurses. —Twenty applicants—a record number, applied for positions as probationer nurses in the Auckland Hospital recently. Two are from Queenstown, one from Te Kuiti, and others from Auckland. Maheno’s Rough Passage. —The in-ter-Colonial steamer Maheno arrived at Wellington at 11.30 last night. She left Sydney at 5 p.m. on Friday, experiencing a heavy soutji-easterly gale, but suffered no damage.—Press Assn. Hankow Rice Shortage. —Telegrams from Hankow, China, report that an acute shortage of rice is imminent. Supplies from up and down the Yangtse River are blocked. —British official wireless. Australian Drought Broken. —Heavy rain has broken the drought and opened up the cattle routes from the Northern Territory. Cattle can now be brought south, and this will relieve the acute shortage of beef.—A. and N.Z. A Youthful Thief. —A youth, IS years of age, named Leslie Joseph Murphy, stowed away on a train from Dannovirke to Palmerston, stole a motor-car when he got there, broke into a store at Foxton an dstole a portmanteau and contents and later a stockwhip from a drover. He was sent to the Borstal Institute. Taihape Motor Fatality. —Evidence given at the adjourned inquest concerning the death of John Roy Mills, killed in a motor-car accident at Taihape on Jrne 11, showed that deceased died of suffocation, clay being lodged in the mouth and nostrils. The driver said he took the corner at 20 miles an hour and through the lights shining oh an opposite corner he mistook the road. He had been drinking but was quite sober. The coroner returned a verdict of accidental death, but commented on the circumstances.