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. Patient’s children with adult; week-ends and public holidays, 11 - 11.30 a.m. Spinal Injury Unit, 4 p.m. to 8.15 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.-lO 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 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. Southern Cross Trust Hospital: 11 а. 2-4 p.m. and 6.30-7.30 p.m. 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: 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 б. p.m. to 7.30 p.m. Friday, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Weekdays, adults only, 12 noon to 1.30 p.m.
Wharenui: Pool open to public, week-days, 3 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. Adults only, Monday and Friday, 12 noon to 1.30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 12 noon to 1.30 p.m. Wednesday (ladies 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 p.m. 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, Friday, 6.30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Lane swimming only, Monday to Friday. 12 noon to 2 p.m. Halswell: Monday to Saturday 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. Waitham, Monday to Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5.45 p.m. and 6.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Templeton: Monday to Friday, 3.30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Woolston Park Pool, Monday to Friday, 3.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. and 6.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.
Canterbury Museum.—lo a.m. to 4.30 p.m. daily. Lyttelton Museum.— Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Ferrymead Historic Park.— 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. daily.
R.N.Z.A.F. Museum, at R.N.Z.A.F. Base Wigram, south of Sockburn roundabout: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday to Saturday. Take a 'No. 25 bus from Cathedral Square. Yaldhurst 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.— Week-days, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Children’s library: Monday to Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Newspaper room: week-days, 8.30 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 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 50-903. 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., Ansaphone 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. Ph. 60-998 or 792-015. REFUSE PITS Metro Refuse Stations: Parkhouse Road, Ruru Road, Styx Mill: every day, 7.30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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