NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20901, 29 September 1942, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY

“A Rush Job” “The polyclinic is going to be a rush job,” stated Mr. R. Natusch, architect for the Cook Hospital Board, at a meeting of the board yesterday afternoon. “I hope to push the job through in eight months —not 12 months.” Mr. Natuseh’s reference to 12 months was the time estimated previously as the maximum required for completion. Garrison Hall Opening. The opening of the Garrison Hall by the Minister of Defence, the Hon. U Jones, will take place at 3 p.m. on Thursday, when it is hoped that as many people as possible will attend, it is exnected that there will be a militarv guard of honour for the occasion and that the City Band will be ,iu attendance. Representatives of local bodies will be on the dais from which the speeches will be made. Wellington Hospital Full The waiting list of intending patients at the Wellington Hospital was described at the latest meeting of the Wellington Hospital Board as “huge,” and a statement was made by the •'-ler'ical superintendent. Dr. J. Cairney that so great is the pressure upon the hospital that none but really urgent civilian patients could be admitted, nor had been admitted since the beginning of the year.

Assistant' Secretary Farewelled At the annual meeting of the Gisborne Co-operative Building Society last night, the chairman of the board of directors. Mr. C. H. Ambridge, farewelled the assistant secretary, Miss Z. Lunn, who was undertaking service with the armed forces. Mr. Ambridge said that Miss Lunn had rendered valuable service to the society for 18 years, and in wishing her a safe and speedy return he presented her with an envelope.

Virtue of Welding In the course of an address on “America at War,” before the Wellington Rotary Club, Mr. C. C. Seers, referring to the manner in which the modern welding process is ousting riveting, said: “In shipbuilding, one welder can assemble as much steel as I'c-ur riveters. Welding saves 13 per cent weight in a ship’s hull by eliminating tire overlap of the ship’s plates '.because they lie edge to edge when welded, instead of being lapped, as when rivetted); and by the saving of rivets, of which over half a million are battered into a 10,000-ton freighter made in the old way."

United Church Service A united church service was held in tire Opera House on Sunday night as Gisborne's part in the campaign for Christian order. A large number of people attended. The combined choirs were under the baton of Mr. J. Chrisp, Methodist Church, and were ably assisted by the Salvation Army Band. Canon A. F. Hall presided over the gathering and the address was given by the Rt. Rev. John Davie, of Si. Andrew’s, moderator of the Presbyterial Church of New Zealand. Ministers from other churches on the olatform were the Revs. A. Blakemore, H. A. Gould, F. A. Parry, N. Drake, Dr. Miskelly, Pastor Haig and Adjutant R'ead. s

Maternity Annex The staff accommodation in the Cook Hospital’s maternity annex is now full, and with the coming of a third sister to the annex there is no accommodation for her, according to the report of the visiting cbmmittee submitted to the board meeting yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Ada E. Beer said that since the construction of the maternity annex complaints had been made that it was a “white elephant” because it had not been well filled. In view of that it would not be wise to increase the accommodation at present. The board decided to take no action with a proposal to extend the accommodation.

Hospital E.P.S. Replying to a suggestion that the Cook Hospital E.P.S. should have representation on the central executive of the Gisborne E.P.S., the Mayor, Mr. N. H. Bull, who is district controller of civil defence, wrote to the Cook Hospital Board, which met yesterday, stating that if all requests for membership of the executive were acceded to the executive would become very unwieldy, but the Hospital E.P.S. might well be represented on the committee of the medical section. An invitation also came before the board from the medical section for the Hospital E.P.S. to provide representatives to join the committee.