NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 280, 21 August 1915, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. IMPORT ANT PROPOSALS. WELLINGTON, Aug. Ilk Important resolutions passed by the British Medical Association in Now Zealand have been forwarded to the Defence Department: “The Association promises to endeavour to assist to make up shortage in the staffs of the general hospitals, and urges that sufficient recently qualified medical men be retained in the Dominion as house surgeons to public hospitals to maintain them at their original numerical strength. The Association is unable to promise to make up any shortage of medical men in country districts, but each division will render as much assistance as possible, provided no doctor is asked to leave his district. The branch will, endeavour to give temporary assistance in camps and hospitals, provided doctors’ ordinary duties ar<* not nnduiV-intcrfered with. The multiplication of numerous small hospitals is deprecated. “The Association recommends that a central military hospital be provided in Wellington, from which sick and wounded soldiers would be sent to their own districts; that all invalided soldiers be placed in separate wards or convalescent homes under military discipline; that it is desirable to send Homo one or more hospital yr.its in place of the one hundred medical officers asked for by the Imperial authorities. M . NOT PLAYING THE GAME.

MAGISTRATE'S SEVERE COMMEXT. AUCKLAND, Aug. ID. Severe comment was ma.de by Mr. C. C. Kettle, SAL, to-day in dealing with a ease in which a grocer and chemist of Mount Eden, Robert Muir, was charged failing to pay an assistant named Albert Mudgway the wages of £2 10/ per week fixed by the Grocers* Assistants’ Award, and with haying failed to keep proper time and wages books. Mudgway was charged with failing to claim the full rate of wages as required by the award. The offences were admitted. The Inspector of Awards, Mr, Newton, described the case as a somewhat unusual one. The wages book showed an entry of £2 received by Mudgway, and under that entry were a number of ticks. When spoken to "about the matter, Mudgway said ho received £2 10/, and he gave 10/ back. /rho defendant (Muir)- gave evi donee that Mudgway had. had little experience as a grocer’s assistant when he entered his employ. Defendant saidhe took him on out of charity, giving him £2 per wek. After the visit of the inspector Mudgway was paid £2 10/. The Magistrate said it was a very painful thing to him to see a respectable citizen coming to the Court with his employee and having to admit a deliberate breach of the award. Thewhole thing was a disgraceful proceeding, and lie would be falling in his duty if he did not inflict the full penalty claimed. The defendant (Muir) would be fined the full amount claimed (£10). With regard to the second charge, Mudgway would be fined £2. Addressing Mudgwav, the Magistrate said he had committed a deliberate breach of the award. He had failed to [day the game, and had worked for wages which honest men would not take. Mudgway would bo fined £2.