Local services

Press, 26 December 1986, Page 6

Local services

HOSPITAL VISITING HOURS Burwood: General wards, 3.15- . 7.30 p.m. Maternity, 3-4 p.m. and 7.30-8.30 p.m. Spinal Injury Unit, 11.30 a.m. to 8.30 p.m. Christchurch Hospital: 2.30-4.30 p.m. and 7-8 p.m. Children's Ward, 2-5 p.m., parents any time. Christchurch Women’s: Baby's father only, 7 a.m.-lO p.m. All wards, 2.30-4.30 p.m. and 7-8 p.m. Patients' children with adult; week-days, 10.30 a.m to IL3O a.m., St George’s: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Maternity, 2.30-3.30 p.m. and 7-8 p.m. Princess Margaret: 2.30-4.30 p.m. and 7-8 p.m. Sunnyside Hospital: 2-7 p.m. Other times by arrangement. BUSES TO HOSPITALS Included below are the numbers of the Christchurch Transport Board buses that stop directly outside the main city hospitals: Christchurch Hospital.—From the Square: Take a No. 8, 21, 24, or 25 bus. To Square: Any bus marked City, or any No. 3, 10, 28, or 29 bus. The. Princess Margaret: 2D, 2E, or 20E. Burwood: 10H, 10N, 29H. Sunnyside: A No. 7 bus. Christchurch Women’s: A No. 4 bus. St George’s: A No. 1 bus. Southern Cross Trust Hospital: Take a No. 4 or 18 bus. LEISURE Swimming Pools.— Queen Elizabeth II Park: Boxing Day, 10 a.m. to 5.45 p.m. Centennial Pool: Boxing Day, 1.45 p.m. to 5.45 p.m. Wharenui: Boxing Day, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Jellie Park: Boxing Day, 12.30 p.m. to-5 p.m., Waltham Park: Boxing Day, 1 p.m. to 4.45 p.m., Sockburn: Boxing Day, 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Halswell: Boxing Day, 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., Templeton: Boxing Day, noon to 5 p.m. Edgeware: Boxing Day, 1 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. Canterbury Museum.— 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. daily. Lyttelton Museum.— Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Ferrymcad Historic Park.— 10 a.m. tp 4.30 p.m. dailyYaldhurst Transport Museum.—lo a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Art Galleries.—Robert McDougall: 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. daily. C.S.A.: Week-days, 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. Public Library.— Lending and reading: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Newspaper room: Week-days, 8.30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Children's Library: Monday to Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wildlife Parks.—Orana: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Willowbank: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. SERVICES Emergency Doctor.—lf you cannot contact your doctor or

a doctor in your area, telephone 69-133.

Emergency home help.— Nurse Maude, telephone 556-089.

Emergency dentist.—lf you cannot contact your dentist, telephone 69-133 for information. Urgent Pharmacy (15 New Regent Street): Boxing Day, 9.30 a.m. to 11 p.m., telephone 64-439. Alcoholics Anonymous.—Telephone 790-860. Citizens’ Advice Bureaux.— City, telephone 66-490 Hornby, telephone 495-236; Bishopdale, telephone 598-090. Aged Peoples’ Welfare Council, help for the elderly in their homes, 64 Cashel Street-Tele-phone 60-903.

Canterbury Information Centre (corner Worcester Street and Oxford Terrace), telephone 799629, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Community Law Centre, 84 Worcester Street:

Monday to Thursday: 5.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. Saturday: 9.30 a.m.. to 12.30 p.m. Continuous Ansaphone service, telephone 66-870. Geriatric and domiciliary services (24-hour service), telephone 63-225.

Community Mediation Service, 203 Gloucester Street: Week-days, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Anasphone service. Mediation sessions arranged to suit, telephone 64-744. Ombudsman.— General Finance Building., cnr Colombo and Gloucester Streets, week-days 8.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Telephone 68-555. Human Rights Commission and Race Relations Office, 190 Hereford Street: weekdays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. telephone 792-015. REFUSE PITS Metro Refuse Stations: Parkhouse Road, Ruru Road, Styx Mill Road, closed.