DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2273, 19 August 1908, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

[Press Association.]

HAAYERA, August 18. A conference of delegates representing tho New Plymouth, iStratford, and Hawera Hospital Boards met at Hawera to-day. when Dr. 'Valintine and the medical superintendents of the hospitals interested attended. Tlieir recommendations included that patients able to pay ordinary cost 111cdic.1l and surgical attention should not be admitted to hospitals on the same terms as ordinary patients, which was adopted, with the provision that the board fix the maximum charge which may be imposed. The doctors’ request that they be .allowed privilege to charge full fees for attendance on patients in hospital able to pay full medical fees was rejected. Resolutions were passed tint, having in view the fact that every member of the community contributes directly or indirectly, or both, to the erection and maintenance of public hospitals, this conference affirms that any person is entitled to claim admission to such hospitals for treatment as a matter of right and mot privilege or charity; that the conference approves that' Salients from one hospital district esirous of being treated in the hospital of another district shall be admitted to such hospital on tho recommendation of tho board of sucli hospital district; that tho conference approves of the principle that as far as possible patients should be treated in hospitals in their separate districts; that the delegates recommend to tlieir hoards a new scale of charges bn 6s per diem for local patients and 7s for those from outside districts.

AVELLINGTON, August 18. The following is Captain Edwin’s weather report to 3 p.in to-morrow: Strong westerly winds northward pf Napier and New Plymouth, with little movement of barometer; strong to gale from westward elsewhere with falling barometer, and probably with rain.

The special Parliamentary train from Auckland, via the Ala:n Trunk line, steamed into AYellingtoh tonight at the expected time, 0.10 p.m. The Prime Minister expresses himself well pleased with the trial trips that have been made;they have demonstrated that a 19 hours’ journey can be comfortably accomplished. In reference to tho controversy that has been going on in regard to the necessities of tho Alaoris at Rotorua, Air. T. AT. AYijford, M.P., who has been endeavoring to obtain for the Alaoris permission to fish in the waters of that, district, is in receipt of the following telegram., “As representatives of the Natives in tho Rotorua district we desire to express our appreciation of your services in championing our cause. Many of the Natives in the different settlements are in a state of great need. The right to fish for trout as food would bo of inestimable benefit to a large number of Natives. Do your utmost for us.” The telegram bears the signatures of Taekata, To Naera, Waharea, AViri Ratcte, Tii Mitchell, and the Revs. Bennett and TiinuAugust 18. A distressing fatality occurred at the reservoir works, on Cashmere Hill this morning, a young in in named Goo. Castles being killed liy a fall of clay. The police report states that Castles, with tw 0 other men, named Samuel Dwyatt and Timothy Donaghuo, was working in a cutting or clay which was being undermined prior to a fall. Castles was warned bv tho engineer in charge about JO minutes before the disaster not to go under so far. as the bank was not safe. The young mail replied that it was quite safe, and he would not mind sleeping there. The bank tell upon Castles without any warning, and when he was dug out about ten minutes later life was extinct. 1 lie body was removed to the morgue, where an inquest was hold this evening, a verdict of acc:dental death being returned. DUNEDIN, August 18. At the Arbitration Court to-da.v the dispute between the Taratu Coal Co. and tho miners was heard. A conference was held a few months a <'o, when most of the clauses in dispute were settled. The remainder were brought before the Court. The clauses unsettled were shift wages, weighing coal, toimajzo rate, stontons, pillars, cross-cut headings, head coal, trucking, and truckers’ wages. After hearing evidence the Court reserved its decision. The All and ale dispute will be heard to-morrow,