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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16927, 16 April 1929, Page 5

The Victorian dried -fruit crop this season is a record, totalling 44,000 tons, of which 31.800 tons are sultanas.

\ Just concluding 'her visit to Now Zealand is Miss E. Glynne, a girl scientist, who is most impressed by the Dominion, writes a 'Wellington correspondent. Trained in Botbamstead, the famous research station in England, where she is now on the staff, Mis* Glynne is on a world tour of investigation of plant diseases. She has boon several weeks in the country and _is yery struck by the work which is being done here. "You liave in New Zealand some of the ablest mycologists in J lie world," she said. "It is a tragedy that such a wonderful, fresh country should be afflicted bv the troubles of the older lands. But your scientists are lacing the problems'and are Steadily learning more of them. .1; believe that in tune they will b« conquered." The change of public opinion as regards hospitals was referred to by Dr.. IT. I'-. Ewen, medical superintendent of the Wellington Hospital, when lecturing to members of the St. John Ambulance Brigade (reports the Port). Some years baelc, he said, people with means 'did not think of entering public hospitals, but now this had been changed, and all classes were looking To public hospitals for treatment. So great was the demand that patients had to he sent out as soon as possible in order to make room for more pressing cases. .Hospitals in these days had nol the accommodation to deal'with the demands put upon them. The Wellington Hospital, for instance, had not always enough beds to accommodate the patients offering. The run upon hospitals within recent years was due to a change in public opinion regarding hospitals generally.