News Of The Day

Northern Advocate, 13 December 1943, Page 2

News Of The Day

U.S. Sailors’ Holiday in North Arranged through the Red Cross organisation, a party of 19 American sailors are holidaying on farms in the Kaikohe, Ohaeawai and surrounding districts. They will be entertained for 10 days. Another party will be billeted over Christmas.

Grass Fire At about 5 o’clock on Sunday afternoon the fire brigade was called out to suppress " a grass fire alongside the railway line near the Whangarei High School. The brigade soon had the fire under control and no damage was caused. * # * * Presentation At an afternoon tea held recently Miss Mavis Bowman, of the Whangarei Hospital Annexe staff, was presented with a beautiful pair of,book ends by Miss V. K. Hammond on behalf of the North Auckland branch of the New Zealand Registered Nurses’ Association. Miss Bowman was one oi the vice-presidents of the association and has been appointed sister-in-charge of the Maternity Annexe at Whakatane. * * * * Nursing As A Career The matron of the Whangarei District Hospital (Miss V. K. Hammond), Nurse Hildreth, (student nurse) and Nurse Livingstone, district nurse, visited the Whangarei Girls’ School cn Friday and addressed the senior pupils on “Nursing as a Career.” These pupils were the guests of the hospital board on Saturday when they visited the various wards on a tour of inspection.

Taranaki Drownings A drowning occurred in the Waitotara River this afternoon at Ngutuwera when a boy slipped into deep water. He was Colin Frederick Greenhill, aged 8, son of Mr and Mrs R. C. Greenhill, Opaku, Patea. When the boy’slipped from a ledge he was grasped and held for a period but his struggles became too much for the person holding him and he was carried away and drowned. An eight-year-old girl was drowned at Strandon Beach, New Plymouth, late on Saturday afternoon. She was Merle Joan Sharrock, daughter of Mr and Mrs H. V. Sharrock, of New Plymouth. She was bathing with other children who were unable to do anything when she was carried out of her depth.

A Ngapuhi Welcome When Lieutenant-Colonel F. Baker, D. 5.0., met a representative gathering of Maori rehabilitation leaders at Kaikohe over the week-end, he was the objective for a regular cannonade of welcomes. In addition to a realistic haka, he was welcomed in true oldtimed Maori oratorical form. There was an address delivered to him as Director of Rehabilitation: there was another to him as a soldier returned from the wars; there was another to him as representative of the fallen in battle; there was another to him as embodying the warriors still fighting the good fight “over there". There was, furthermore, a virtual battery of hand-shaking, and personal well-wish-ing. If the Director imagined he was unpopular at any stage of the game, his contact with the Ngapuhis will have changed his mind.