NEW HOSPITAL

Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1940, Page 4

NEW HOSPITAL

MR FRASER’S APPEAL. (Per Press Association —Copyright). DANNEVIRKE, July 15. Additions to the Dannevirke public hospital comprising A administrative $ ock, women’s 4 block and maternity costing appioximately £50,0.0 were opened by the Prime Minister on (Saturday jin a the presence of a large representative gathering. The speakers included . Mayor Gibbard, the Member, Sir Alfred Ransom, L. Stein, Chairman of the Board, . and others. The Prime Minister eo terra tulated the Board upon the handsome additions to the hospital. In regard to the war. he appealed to the people not to listen to lying propaganda from German radio levelled at the British people. It was aimed at disruption and the smashing of the morale of the British nation. He also condemned the dangerous practice, of spreading rumours which were absolutely untrue and without the • slightest foundation. Those who liked to believe' the worst were just as bad as those who spread the false rumours. He requested the people' not to become alarmed, hut always to remain cool whatever the situation they may be placed in. The Government would always take the people into their confidence in regard to* important matters, as the war developed. Particularly in the East, the rumours might he .intensified, and when these were circulated with a view to presaging defeat fo Britain, he asked the people to do their very best to check them straight away. Now was the tipie for the people to realise the position confronting the British Commonwealth of Nations and the necessity for unity, putting into the background all political controversies, and settling themselves to the one task of achieving a victory.