WAIRARAPA HOSPITAL BOARD

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11026, 24 December 1928, Page 3

WAIRARAPA HOSPITAL BOARD

INSTALLATION OF WIRELESS. Electric Telegrapli —Press Association MASTERTON, December 19. Mr W. Fislier presided at a meeting of the Waira*-apa, Hospital Board this morning.. Also present mere Messrs T. V. Moore, J. C. Ellington, M. Smith, V. I. Armstrong, R. B. Robertson, C. C. Jackson, C. T. Richardson and A. Clarke. A letter was received from the Dir-ector-General cf Health (Dr. \ alentine) granting permission for a sum, in hand for the erection of a bund rotunda, to, be devoted to the installation of wireless at the hospital. The matter was left in tlig hands of the central committee. Various reports from the treasurer were adopted without comment. A recommendation that all probationers, if and when accepted for training. be paid the existing rate of salary for first-year probationers th© same to be made retrospective to the date of commencing their probationership. less the £1 per month now paid under the existing regulations, was adopted. A recommendation that, an expenditure of £44 2s be incurred this financial year, for furnishing additions to the. diphtheria and fever wards, (not having been provided for on the estimate's) was adopted,. An expenditure of £4O was authorised for pendittir© on Christmas cheer at the hospitals under the hoard’s jurisdiction.

Daily averages of patients in the hospitals under the board’s jurisdiction were shown in reports as follow:—Maeterton 79.1; Groytown. 19: Buchanan Home 28 ; Paliiatua 15. .Accounts totalling £3,179 11s "7d, were passed for payment.