Queen Mary's Convalescent Hospitals

Roy ad CUft Book Published to Ratal Fund*. A national appeal la now being mad* tor finnncini support to Queen Mary*» Convalescent Auxiliary Hospitals for soldiers and Bailors who havo loot Hmb« m the war. For this object the wenknown English publlaheca, Meosra. Hodden and Stoughton. boy« published "The Queen'a Gift Book." copies of which, at an early date, will b* obtainablo from all booksellers Uxrooclfr* out Now Zealand, at 3a W. Queen Mary'u Convalescent Hospital* or« at Roobarapton, £tojriaud. Mr. Pierpout Morgan Konorously lent Dover House, Boohampton, and Mr. K. Wilson, Rochampton House. The work at Um> hospltala marks a groat advance on methods liithcrto adopted for providing artlflcal limbs for sailors and sol- : dlore disabled m war. In th« pturt thoso gallant men, ou their discharge from hospital, havo returned to their homos or their friends m various wirta of the United Kingdom ivnd waited until artinclal llmbti wcro sent to them. These appliances always require readjuatincnL neertSHftatod, m many caacs, a lonff journoy — poxltap.t two or throe Journeys— -to tho Unib-makur, the patient havinK 10 mnnage u« b<a»t bn eonld m the mountinwi. For the want of a Mttle instruction m thoJr ime, limbs wero frequently cast tuddo iv» vworthle«B— ■ mon preicrrinK to rely upon their crutches or a pcfr-loff for tho remainder of th«lr liven. , Thlnfrs are nitenxl now. Unfortunately, the problem to b« solved has proved far morp gntvo than WM at first anticipated. On November 1 1/tst, 2400 cjutcs were on tho Hoapltnl Register, and 1250 patio nt* ready or nearly ready to b« admitted. Th«j« numbers do not tako into account Urn nmputalJon cancji since Auirust last, of which 1t ia feared there urn n trreat number. Officers and mun from Axuh trnlla find Now ZdUiuad are received nml car«d for enually with those from the Mother Country. To meet the diittcull rrttuation. temporary Hospital Wardtt have hpen built to lncrea«« the accoirvmotlatlon to 400 bod*. necejotUatlni;— with the brdldtnif of n n«iw kitchen Onpartmnnt r-rorea-tion rooniH, etc.,— nn cxprndftvro of ov«r £12.000. And It m to m«*t thin (^vor-firrowinK Mcpendiuire that fct Tier Majesty's utiß^fttion ibis Uoyal Otft Hook han b<»rn published. "Thn Qu^on'n Olfi ltr*>k" contains fitortc*. poems, and nnl<3#*j« hy mnny of the most populnr nuthon< nf the day and nil tho contribution* nrr tihttttrat^d by pnlnUnit.<« or drnvrtasi>< wjw-cittJly 'executed by the for<Mn«>»t Kvlntr »rtl«t«. Authors nnd ar<(»tri hav<» wnrkrd with enthuntrwn t^ mnJcp ihc ■produrtien m every r«jnp<M?t worthy of the Royal Innmo ihft book b<\>ir». nnd of th« woionidld object for wh'.cb it m oobltithcd.