Local services

Press, 19 December 1988, 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. Patients’ children (accompanied), 11-11.30 a.m., week-ends and public holidays. Spinal injury unit, 4 p.m. to 8.15 p.m. weekdays, 11 a.m. to 8.30 p.m.. week-ends and public holidays. Christchurch Hospital.—2.3o4.30 p.m. and 7-8 p.m. Children’s ward, 2-8 p.m., parents any time. Christchurch Women’s.—All wards: 2.30 p.m.-4.30 p.m., 7 p.m.8 p.m. Fathers, 7 a.m.-lO p.m. Patients' children accompanied by an adult, 10.30 a.m.-11.30 a.m. at the week-end. St George’s.—ll 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 p.m. to 8 p.m. Princess Margaret.—2.3o-4.30 p.m. and 7-8 p.m. Sunnyside Hospital.—2-7 p.m. Other times by arrangement. Southern Cross Trust Hospital.— 11 a.m. to noon, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., and 6.30 p.m. to 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 the Square, take any bus marked City, or any No. 3, 10, 28 or 29 bus. Princess Margaret: Take a No. 2D, 2E or 20E bus. Burwood Hospital: Take a No. 10H, 10N or 29H bus. Sunnyside Hospital: Take a No. 7 bus. Christchurch Women’s Hospital: Take a No. 4 bus. St George’s Hospital: Take a No. 1 bus. Southern Cross Trust Hospital: Take a No. 4 or 18 bus. SERVICES Emergency Doctor.—lf you cannot contact your doctor or a doctor in your area, telephone

669-133 or the after hours medical service, telephone 657-777. Emergency Home Help.— Nurse Maude, telephone 556-089. Emergency Dentist: If you cannot contact your dentist, telephone 669-133 for information. Urgent Pharmacy (15 New Regent Street). —Week-ends, 9.30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Telephone 664-439. REFUSE PITS Metro Refuse Stations (Parkhouse Road, Sockburn, Styx Mill, Harewood, and Bromley): Daily, 7.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. SWIMMING POOLS Q.E.11: Saturday, 7 a.m. to 5.45 p.m., Sunday and public holidays, 10 a.m. to 5.45 p.m. Centennial: 1 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. Wharenui: Saturday, 10.30 to 12 noon, '2 p.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, 10 ■ a.m. to 12 noon and 2 p.m. to 5 ■ p.m. Jellie Park: Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. Sockburn: Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.; Sunday, 12 noon to 5 p.m. Edgeware: Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.; Sunday, 1 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. Halswell: Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.; Sunday, 12 noon to 5 p.m. Templeton: Week-ends, 12 noon to 5 p.m. Waltham Pool: Week-ends, 1 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. Legal referral centres (Canter- • bury District Law Society): Ring Citizens’ Advice Bureau. 66-490, or check page 747 of the “Yellow Pages.” Canterbury Information Centre (corner Worcester St and Oxford Tee): telephone 799-629, week--ends and public holidays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Community Law Centre, 178 Manchester Street, Saturday 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. Continuous ’ Ansaphone service 66-870. Youthline: telephone 794-794, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. each night. Canterbury Museum: 10 a.m.4.30 p.m. Ferrymead Park: 10 a.m.- 4.30 p.m.