HAWERA HOSPITAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 13 December 1926, Page 11

HAWERA HOSPITAL.

TO-DAY’S MEETING OF BOARD. At to-day’s meeting of the Hawera Hospital Board, Nurse McCarty forwarded her resignation, having completed her third year of training, passed her hospital examination, and having sat for the State examination. Applications have been received from Miss Palmer and Miss Beecliey for appointment as probationers. The Medical Officer of Health, Wellington, advised that there were _ 100 vacancies in the Pukeora Sanatorium, and at Queen Mary Hospital 10 service beds and 5 civilian beds. The Director-General of Health (Dr. T. H. Valintine) wrote approving of the appointment of Dr. Frazer as medical superintendent. Dr. Valintine intimated that he would be unable to come to Hawera before the new year, and would pay_ a visit as early as possible in January. GIFTS MADE. Some weeks ago a list was published in the Star of the principal donations made to the Hawera hospital The list went back to 1903, when records were first made. To-day a note was received by the secretary stating that some time before 1902 a gift was made from the Mitchell estate, or from a beneficiary in that estate, to the Hawera hospital. A new ward was to he built, called the “Mitchell Ward.” In the hospital over the first ward to the left of the entrance is a handsome design worked in timber, embodying the shamrock, the thistle, and the rose, and an inscription in the centie, “The James Mitchell Ward, 1894.’’ It is a fine piece of work, and altogether the fact of the donation deserves more publicity than has been accorded to it. It ■ was given in early times, when such a gift was most valuable.