LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1942, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Baby’s Death. Raymond Thomas Nicol, the 16-months-old son of Mi’ and Mrs T. C. Nicol, Wairoa, met his death under tragic circumstances on Wednesday night. The child obtained a box of quinine tablets and apparently had eaten some. After treatment he appeared to recover, but an hour later became violently ill. He was admitted to hospital, where he died shortly afterwards.

X-Ray Service. Amendments to the Social' Security (X-Ray Diagnostic Services) Regulations are contained in this week’s Gazette. The main purpose of the regulations, said the Minister of Health, Mr Nordmeyer, last evening, was to provide a further extension of X-ray services by making available the services of radiologists possessing their own plant. Up to the present the service has been confined to public hospitals.

Army Reserve Transport. The following personnel of the Lines of Communication Motor Transport Company, No. 13, Wairarapa, will proceed to camp at Dannevirke tomorrow for a short course of instruction: Lieut. C. R. Wenden, Featherston, Sgts. R. D. Chapman, Martinborough, C. Jury, Featherston, E. D. McFarlane, Featherston R. Dickason, Masterton, S. Wilkinson’ Masterton, H. J. Milner, Mauriceville. Shorthand Results.

The following Wairarapa College pupils have passed shorthand examinations as stated:—Pitman’s Elementary Certificate—Berris Perrin, Fae Humphrey, Hira Tauwhare, Eileen Wiltshire, Lois Dixon, Audrey Regan, Peggy Lawrence. Clarice Wright. Pitman's Theory Certificate— Phyllis Thorburn. Pitman’s Shorthand Typist Certificate (80 words per minute). —June E. Wiltshire. Pitman’s Speed Certificates.—Bo w.p.m.: Shirley Duley. 70 w.p.m.: Mary Rutherford, Heather Wilson, Noeline Bradley. 60 w.p.m.: Heather Douglas, Gwenda Barber, Shirley Russell, Lois Wilson, Evelyn McGovern, Eva Stevenson, Margaret Stevenson, Eileen Holes. 50 w.p.m.: Mary Williams, Phyllis Thorburn, Claire Riley. The Westfield Strike. As a sequel to the stoppage of work at the Westfield freezing works on January 15, 63 mutton slaughtermen were charged at the Auckland Magistrates’ Court yesterday that being party to a strike they partially discontinued their employment, contrary to regulations. They pleaded guilty, and the magistrate, in ordering them to come up for sentence if called upon within a year, said they would not be called if work proceeded in a right and proper way. The Magistrate said it appeared to him that the men had good cause for complaint concerning the provision of transport for workers, but they had spoilt it by taking direct action.

Fine for Resigning. A police constable, David Arthur Bowick, was fined £lO in the Christchurch Magistrates’ Court yesterday for having resigned from the Police Force on December 31 without expiess authority from the Minister. Inspector Carroll, in evidence, said Bowick tendered his resignation in November as he had bought a business. He had been 13 years in the Force. The Minister had refused to accept the resignation. Since Bowick’s resignation had been received two other constables had been allowed to resign. Bowick, in evidence, said a despicable act on the part of the police authorities when he was relieving a constable at Woolston last year made him think the police had little further use for him. He started in business on January 1. Counsel for Bowick contended that the ruling of Mr Justice Fair in the Kilgour case in Auckland affected Bowick’s case, . but this view was not accepted by the magistrate, who imposed a fine of £lO. Medical Scheme Refunds. In an Order-in-Council yesterday provision is made for the acceptance by the medical officer of health of the signature of an approved person instead of the doctor himself for the purpose of obtaining a refund under the general medical services scheme. The Minister of Health, Mr Nord" meyer, explained last evening that when this scheme came into force on November 1 last it was regarded as essential, to provide against the possibility of bogus and irregular claims, that the doctor should in every case personally signify that the service had ( been rendered. It would bo appreciated, the Minister said, that this safeguard should be continued except in cases where circumstances rendered this course impracticable. It might happen, for example, that the doctor rendering the services might be called into camp and not be personally able to vouch for the accuracy of the claim. It was to meet special cases of this kind that the amendment had been passed.