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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19070, 18 July 1936, Page 15

aln connection with the proposal to institute a- system, of domiciliary treatment for indigent sick, on an expert - mental basis, adopted yesterday by the Cook Hospital Board, it is pointed out that details of the scheme have not yet b?en worked out, and that no action can be taken by the board or by medical practitioners in Gisborne to vary the standing arrangements until after next month's meeting of the Cook Hospital Board. At that meeting, it is hoped, a report embodying the full regulations governing the scheme will be tabled, and the experimental period will commence thereafter. Two pensions cases reported on at tin Gisborne Keturr.ed. Soldiers' Association •executive meeting 6'n Wednesday night &avc much satisfaction to those present. ■ln the first case, the applicant had hoHi in hospital for years with tuberculosis, "but unfortunately for the early success of his claim, iie had no medical history during his service years. Evidence as to bis ■ condition abroad and''.also :is to the 'progressive nature of liLs complaint eventually was secured by the associatior 1 ,; and his claim was pressed to the tippCcl beard, which accepted jthe eviJtefttgti and granted the full pension, with *rr«Jirs. In the other cape, a widow claimed a pension on the grounds that her husband had died three years ago from the results of war service, and though difficulty was found in linking up lij& illness with any specific war sickness, that task was finally completed id the .satisfaction of the Pensions Appeal Board', and the pension, with 'arrears, was secured for the applicant. The secretary of the association. Mr. W. Gakden, was warmly congratulated on fh&e successes, end stated that they were mainly due fo the perseverance of #i« claimants in following advico tcnMiWl W tlfem in regard to the collectiono' evidence.