The Gisborne Harbor Board yesterday granted Mr A. F. Allen, engineering assistant to the board, three months' leave of absence as a preliminary to his severing his connection with the staff. -Ah*. Allen is to join the Public Works Department as engineering assistant. The superintendent of the Wellington Hospital, Dr. A. R. Thorne, reported to the Wellington Hospital Board at a recent meeting that the daily average number of occupied beds for .September was 729, as compared with 631 for a. similar period last year. The chairman, Mr. J. Clover, said the accommodation in the hospital and in the nurses' home were both inadequate: the position was not fair to the patients nor the nurses.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19133, 30 September 1936, Page 15
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