NAPIER'S CARNIVAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 19, 24 January 1933, Page 3

NAPIER'S CARNIVAL.

NEW HOSPITAL OPENED.

GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S TRIBUTE,

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

NAPIER, this day.

Fine but cool weather favoured the second day of the "New Napier" /carnival week yesterday. Crowds of visitors thronged the town, and everyone was in high spirits. .. . . Their Excellencies Lord a.i)d Lady. Bledisloe had a busy day. They opened the Napier Society of Arts and Crafts exhibition, and the new administrative block of the Napier Hospital,, while in the evening they attended the Red Cross ball. • :

. Feeling reference to; the cool courage of doctors and nurses at the time of the earthquake in .1931 was made by Lord Bledisloc in opening, the new hospital block. "I anr happy in the recollection of your splendid nursing Staff on that occasion,"' said 1 his Excellency. "Regardless of the question of their own safety, they thought first only of the patients under their charge. I an) happily reminiscent of the. fact that within an hour of the terrible disaster operations were being performed outside the building with coolness and efficiency." It would be impossible to hope for anything better, lie added, than the fine British qualities which were conspicuous at the time of the disaster. His Excellency unveiled tablets to the memorv of the nurses killed and injured in the earthquake, and paid a tribute to the subsequent noble work of those who survived!