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DRUNK IN HOSPITAL FINED
Claude Powell, labourer, of Capital Hill mess, who was admitted to the Canberra Hospital on Thursday with an amputated toe following an acci- dent while chopping wood, was fined £2, in default four days Imprisonment by Mr. F. C. P. Keane, S.M., at the Canberra Court on Saturday.
Powell pleaded guilty to being drunk in a public ward of the hos- pital.
It was stated that Powell was cre- ating a nuisance and was upsetting
other patients.