PATIENTS AND PRISONERS’ AID

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21199, 3 December 1930, Page 2

PATIENTS AND PRISONERS’ AID

MONTHLY MEETING OF SOCIETY. The monthly meeting of the committee of the Patients and Prisoners’ Aid Society was held yesterday afternoon, Mr E. A. Roaevear presiding. Th acting-agent (Mr R, Syder) submitted a report which contained the following clauses: —The- Public Hospital is a great field for labour, and claims a good deal of attention. I have visited this institution twice weekly, and find many opportunities for assisting the fiatients, especially amongst those who lave had the misfortune to lose their limbs. The singing services given every Sunday evening by the church choirs are greatly appreciated by the patients, and the society is deeply grateful for their labours. In the Talboy’s Home I found among those in the eventide of life some who welcomed Christian fellowship and gladly listened to the message of life from the Word of God. Palmerston and Wakari Sanatoriums have each been visited wth smilar results. Seacliff and Waitati Mental Hospitals present a gr.eat problem, with their vast population, and a great number of patients look forward to the weekly visit of your agent, A day each week seems but small ambng so many. Temporary relief has been given to necessitous cases as follows:—10 orders coal, 21 orders groceries, 7 orders meat, 3 orders clothing, 1 order boots, 1 order boot repairs, 1 fare Raufurly. 1 fare Invercargill, 1 fare Wellington, 2 persons board one week, 1 pair spectacles, 1 artificial eye. I regret to report that the appeal made through the press recently for our Christmas cheer fund has not met with ns liberal response as could be desired, and Mr* Gumming is feeling rather anxious about it. Only £8 16s 6d has so far been received; The chairman said the Christmas cheer fund was one the society could commend to the public. The following motion was carried, members standing in silence:—“That the Patients and Prisoners’ Aid Society places on record its deep sense of the loss sustained in the removal by death of Mr Walter Gow. For a long number of years Mr Gow was a member of the Executive Committee, and took an active and intelligent interest in all that pertained to the welfore of the society, ami the loss to the society would be severely felt. _ The society also desires to express its sincere sympathy with Mrs Gow and the family in the loss they had sustained.”

The chairman reported that he had visited Mr Cuming and found him improving in health. The Perpetual Trustees and Executors Company wrote intimating that, under the will of the late Mr D. Todd, the society was bequeathed a legacy of £IOO for the benefit of the Powell Eeet Home.—The chairman said the letter would be acknowledged in the usual way. Mr D. Phillip reported on the Powell Convalescent Home for November. There were 15 patients in residence, all of whom had benefitted greatly in health. In the last few weeks the home had not been so full as the committee would like, muf it would be well to take steps to make it better known, so that it might be kept full of patients. At present there were five patients in the home.

Thanks were tendered to the choirs that had contributed entertainment at the Wakari Sanatorium and elsewhere. It was left to the chairman to fix the date of the next meeting.

patriotically minded citizens are forming themselves into a league which will do all in its power to limit consumption of water until times arc better. Membership to the league is obtainable on payment of ninepence, the password being "Don’t drown it.” Mr Perrelle states that there is real team work in the House. It would bo difficult, however, to say which of the three teams gets the best of it. “Jolly” Gleuksmann, famous for the lengthy fasts he lias conducted in glass eases, has committed suicide. He is stated to have been having a lean time.It is recognised, of course, that n fast playa fast and loose with the liver.