NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 260, 30 July 1937, Page 13

NEWS IN BRIEF

Hospital Plans Plans for Wellington's new hospital buildings were displayed at last night’s meeting of the Wellington Hospital Board, but discussion of them was postponed until next Tuesday evening, when a special meeting of the board is to be held. Hospital Loan. The executive and finance committee reported at last night’s meeting of the Wellington Hospital Board that the Local Government Loans Board and the Minister of Health had given approval for the board’s raising by way of loan tlie sum of £46.000 for additions to the boiler house. The Minister had also approved of the board's incurring by way of bank overdraft a sum not exceeding £50,000 for the quarter ending on September 30. Paekakariki Nurse. At last night’s meeting of the Wellington Hospital Board there was some discussion on the provision of a district nurse for Paekakariki. The questions, were referred to the house committee to deal with at a meeting on Monday and act accordingly. It was stated in the general purposes committee’s report that a deputation of residents from Paekakariki had been received protesting against the transfer of the nurse from Paekakariki to Eastbourne. From Ah American College. A message of goodwill from her. American university college is being brought to Canterbury University College by Miss Mary North, Mills College, Oakland, California, who is visiting New Zealand with her father, Mr. A. W. North, an American explorer and writer. Miss North will deliver the message when she visits Christchurch and hopes to be able to show to students at Canterbury College a film of the presentation of the message to her by the president of Mills College. A similar message, from an American school, is being taken to the Waitaki Girls’ High School, Oamaru. Farm Labour Problem. Although the new dairying season has not yet commenced in the north, difficulties of obtaining labour are again stated to be exercising the minds of farmers in the Waikato. One farmer from the Cambridge district said this week that he knew of a number of instances where producers were culling their herds extensively in order to bring them down to a size which would be easilj’ manageable by members of the family. The extra grazing that was then available was being utilised for the raising of sheep, and on a number of farms where dairying was formerly the sole occupation, flocks of breeding ewes were now being run.