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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11948, 19 May 1933, Page 4

“I notice the cost per head per day for stores and provisions issued to the nurses’" lioiu e is the lowest it ha s ever been,’ 5 remarked the chairman (Mr, M. T. Trafford), at yesterday’s meeting of the’Cook Hospital Board. In liis usual monthly .report, tho managing, secretary, ,A£r. C. A. Harries), intimated that the average number of staff hoarded per day ,at the home was 5S last month, and tho same iu the corresponding months °f the t"’o previous years. The comparative costs per head per month were a s followsl93l, £2; 1932, £1 11s 6d; 1933, £1 6s 9d.’ The cost per head por day in April } 1931, was Is -Id, in 1932 it was Is Old,. and last, month it was IOJd. As. far 33 patients i n the hospital were concerned, tho costs per occupied bed for April were, as follows: ‘ 1931, £1 11s -id • 1931, £1 Os Id ; 2d. Tho cost - per week per occupied bed was; 1931, 7 3 ;3dj; ! ■1932, 7s ; 1933,’ 5s Bd. " ;/'' V Despite the increased exchange, the latest London magazines, including the Strand,. (Pearson’s,"; Wise World, Twenty-Story and Argosy are on sale at ’ Book Stpye at : the same price as<m^Lohdoiij„(one shilling each j the - cheapest (price Gisborne. . Ba,ck number America’rt magazines; at . ninepence hrd; alsp popular, new stocks riving.* * ; ■ • Our ' prices defv cumjMition.-~& W: .T Maiin Cfrmist/ * * -