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Otago Witness, Issue 3755, 2 March 1926, Page 18

Reviewing the operations of the Ruakura State Farm of Instruction, the Waikato Times says: “Thirty-five youths have been enrolled in the agricultural classes on the farm, where a fresh course of two years’ training was commenced this month. The capacity of the classes is double this number, and regret is expressed that more fanners do not avail themselves of the opportunity of giving their boys a first-class training in husbandry. The fact of a corpse having to be kept in the Tolaga Bay Hospital for 32 hours was referred to at the meeting of the Cook Hospital Board by the chairmun, Mr W. G. Sherratt, who stated that the matter was a disgrace. There was no morgue at Tolaga Bay (says the Poverty Bay Herald), and when delay occurred in finding the man’s relatives there was no place to which to remove the body. It was decided to call the attention of the authorities to the matter, and to advise the sister in charge that no body should be allawed to remain in tho hospital.