OAMARU HOSPITAL TRUSTEES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14820, 20 October 1920, Page 2

OAMARU HOSPITAL TRUSTEES.

The monthly meeting of the Oamaru Ho-pital Trustees wn* held Inst- night, the Chairman. Mr J. I). Grant, presiding- There were also present Mes-rs .1. D. Fami'ton. 1,. K. Haines. H. G. Deal. H. Grenfell. ami the secretary (Mr Walter Gibb*. An apology was recetvtd from Mr .Ja.». Hodman. Th'- Chairman --aid the time had conic to .-eriou-tv consider th<» installation of a mafrnitv ward.

Mr .1. i). Famiiton said that the public would Ih> sympathetic in assistance of that project. Mr 1,. K. Haine- said that it was clearly th*> duty < f the Trustees to take in necessitous maternity cases. Ono tva->>n why the nurse-*' lionie should he built and got out of the programme u;t- that this would (pave the field clear for the maternity ward and other pressing needs.

The Medical Superintendent- acknowledged th - following gifts with thanks: Flowers. High School girls. Misses Banks and Familton. the Horticultural Society, and Ncwhorottg'i Sunday School (tf>>uer service*: illustrated papers. Mesdamis |-. Vcimall anfi A. G. C'reagh : butter muslin. British Kcd Cro>>: monthly service. Salvation Army : rebato by Bristol Piano Co. 011 gramophone. ir.'l X». Accounts totalling CIK'S were passed f«>r pay incut.