NELSON NEWS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 130, 6 June 1929, Page 13

NELSON NEWS

HOSPITAL MATTEES

GOOD WORK BY DREDGE

(From Our Own Correspondent.) •, V1 ■ -:. ';, XT ■' NELSON, -3th -June., fi ii f? ■ c Nelson Hospital Board met tins afternoon, Mr. P. W. 0. Smith was unanimously. e i ected chairman.'• During :?/ 1- Patlents were udmitted to the institution 131 were discharged, and 83 mmfh f .^end-of'the month. -The number admitted constitutes a record. /£ it n familles received assistance, aud f I m,was- exPended on **tions and luei. I lie managing-secretary - (Mr. G Chapman) informed the board that durlu s \r c pa,st financial year receipts from '■♦ im, tu?r a C°ttage ■Hospital" amounted £1169 * whlle"tlle expenditure was The Murcliison' district is- again in" trouble over the provision of medical service. Dr. Jordan, late of Pahnerston ■North, who was recently appointed to Murchison by the board, has sent in notice of his resignation. A deputation from the Murchison County Council waited on the board, and asked that the present subsidy paid by the board be 'increased to £350 to ! attract a good medical man to the dis-' tnct; The request was, however, refused, i and it was resolved to advertise the posi- , tion with a subsidy of £200. -The harbourmaster at Port Nelson reported to the Harbour Board to-day that the . following cargo passed over the. wharves during May: Inward, 12,779 toiib; outward, 5191 tons. The corresponding figures lor May last year were 11,376 tons and 4204 iona respectively. The total increase for May was 2303 tons. The dredge Kaione, which is under hire by the Nelson Boaid from the Wanganui Board, is giving complete satisfaction. &he lias removed«"37,&!3 tons ot spoil irom the cross-channel' and the north end of the whait, of which 27,000 tons has beeii deposited at sea and 10,623 tons pumped on to the reclamation on the city side of the wharves." Mr. Allan Wilkic and his Shakefepearian company left for Wellington and Napier to-night. The eight plays presented in Nelson weie attended by approximately 8500 persons. - Road improvement works have been subsidised by the Nelson Autompbile Association during the past twelve months to the extent of-£l6O.