Local services

Press, 20 November 1987, Page 12

Local services

HOSPITAL VISITING HOURS Burwood: General wards. 3.157.30 p.m. Maternity, 3-4 p.m. and 7.30-8.30 p.m. Spinal Injury Unit, 4 p.m. to 8.15 p.m. Southern Cross Trust Hospital: 11 a.m.-noon, 2-4 p.m. and 6.307.30 p.m. Christchurch Hospital: 2.30-4.30 p.m. and 7-8 p.m. Children’s Ward, 2 p.m to 8 p.m., parents any time. Christchurch Women’s: Baby’s father only, 7 a.m.-io p.m. All wards. 2.30-4.30 p.m. and 7-8 p.m. Patients’ children with adult; weekends, 10.30 a.m to 11.30 a.m. St George’s: 11 a.m. to 12 noon, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., and 7 p.m. to 8 pjn. 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, lON, 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: Monday to Saturday, 7 a.m. to 8.45 p.m. Centennial Pool: Monday to Thursday, 7 a.m. to 5.45 p.m. and 6.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. Friday, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Weekdays, adults only, 12 noon to 2 p.m. Wharenui: Pool open to public, week-days, 3 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. Adults only: Monday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. 12 noon to 1.30 p.m. Wednesday (ladles only) 1.30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Monday to Friday, 7.30 a.m. to 9 a.m. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 7.30 p.m. to 9 pan. Jellie Park: Monday to Friday,

11 a-m. to 7 p.m. Edgeware: Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday. Thursday, 6.30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Adults only, Monday to Friday, 12 noon to 2 p.m. Halswell: 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Adults only, Monday to Friday. 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Sockburn: Monday to Friday, 7 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Waltham, Monday to Thursday. 10 a.m. to 5.45 p.m. and 6.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. SERVICES . Emergency Doctor.—lf you cannot contact your doctor or a doctor in your area, telephone 69-133 or after hours medical service, telephone 57-777. 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): Monday to Thursday, 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday, 9.30 p.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 People’s Welfare Council, help for the elderly in their homes, 64 Cashel Street Weekdays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.-Telephone 60-903. Canterbury Information Centre (corner Worcester Street and Oxford Terrace), telephone 799629, week-days, 8.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Community Law Centre, 178 Manchester 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., enr 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: week-days 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. telephone 792-015.