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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7281, 7 October 1933, Page 6

The Nurses' and Midwives’ Registration Amendment Bill came before the House of Representatives for the second reading yesterday afternoon. The Minister of Health (Hon. J. A. Young) said that the Bili was designed to remove certain anomalies in the existing legislation. Mrs. E. R. McCombs (Labour, Lyttelton) commended the legislawliich, she said, safeguarded tho rights of the nurses. The Bili was read a second time.

An elderly watersider, W. J. Conn, last week fell heavily on his neck while negotiating steps in a Dunedin street, and, feeling dazed, he sensed some injurcy. He walked to the hospital, wkero his caso created much interest, Cor the X-ray revealed two fractures of the cervical vertibrae, or a broken neck. After being four days in hospital, Conn declined to stay, asserting that he was fit and without pain, cheerfully defying the medical law. He declared yesterday that he had no intention of dying for many years yet. Thousands of yards of silt have been removed from the reservoir at Tiritea since the work of cleaning out Palmerston North’s dam commenced, and it is confidently anticipated that by the end of November the main task, will have been completed. Fifteen to eighteen men are employed, but heavy rains recently hold up the contract when tho main drain filled up. As soon as tho reservoir could be emptied, however, work proceeded and much has been accomplished since the recent downpours. A denial that he had made a statement attributed to him in the House of Representatives on Wednesday by Mr P. Fraser, to the effect that the dairy farmers had received ah advantage from the increase in the. rate of exchange because the increase was set off by the action of other countries depreciating their currency, was given at Wellington yesterday by Mr T. C. Brash. Mr Brash said he had never indicated that the farmers were not receiving tho advantage. They obviously had received a considerable increase in the price of ' terfat as a result of the rise. Mr Fraser later said that he accepted Mr Brash’s assurance. He had made the statement in good faith and regretted if he had misrepresented Mr Brasil’s opinions.