Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3829, 9 August 1928, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL

According to the estimates the salary of the new General Manager of Railways has been fixed at £3500 per annum.

The whole of the hierarchy of New Zealand will attend the great Eucharistic Congress, to be held in Sydney from September 0 to 0 (inclusive). Its personnel consists of His Grace Archbishop Redwood, Coadjutor - Archbishop O’Shea (Wellington), Bishops Cleary and Liston (Auckland), Bishop,Brodie (Christchurch), and Bishop Whyte (Dunedin).

To Motorists: Fill up at Fairey’s Refreshment Rooms. The spirit with which we serve you will please you. Hot pies, mashed potatoes and peas, 9d; for the ladies dainty morning and afternoon lea, 9d. Rest room, for Ladies. Mothers with babies special attention. Plunket Rooms on premises. Open on Thursdays, at Fairey’s, Foxton.®

The total number of admissions into the public hospitals in the Dominion during the year 1927 was (18,303. There were 4452 patients in hospital at the beginning of the. year, the total number of cases dealt with during the year being thus 72,755, equal to a rate of 50(5 per 10,000 of mean population, including Maoris; or, in other words, one out of every 20 persons in the Dominion received some degree of medical treatment in publiq hospi - tals in 1927. A total of 47,150 persons was treated in hospitals situated in the North-Island, and 25,605 in those in the South Island. The rates for the two islands were 513 and -192 per 10,000 of mean population respectively.