TARANAKI HO SP ITAL BOARD.
PROPOSED SUBSIDIARY STATIONS. NEW PLYMOUTH. August- 24. At the Taranaki Hospital Board meeting to-day all the resolutions carried at the recent conference of the various Taranaki hospitals were unaniinouslv adopted. A scheme was outlined by the chairman of th© boa-rd providing for the institution of a system, of district nurses to ensuTe t-he benefits of the New Plymouth Hospital being more widely distributed. A proposal to station experienced nurses at various points in the province to attend maternity cases, minor accidents, etc., their salaries to be guaranteed by th© ixjard, .and a siixaJl fee -to I>e <H-Lsurg,e& -to patients, -was warmly supported by country members, and meetings are to be aldressed by the -chairman and Dr Valentine at places where it is proposed the nurses ehould be stationed and which are almost certain to embrace the scheme.
A world's record was made recently by Camniell. Laird's new turbine torpedo boat destroyer Swift, which attained a speed of 3o" knots (44 land miles) an hour, or two knots more than the 6peed 'required by contract. The previous record of 37.113 knots (43 land miles) was made by th© turbine destroyer Viper, built in 1899,
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Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 26 August 1908, Page 63
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198TARANAKI HOSPITAL BOARD. Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 26 August 1908, Page 63
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