TE AROHA TOPICS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 981, 26 May 1930, Page 15

TE AROHA TOPICS

i A public meeting was held on Friday evening t«> consider the proposed establishment of a maternity hospital or casualty ward in Te Aroha. The Mayor, Mr. R. Coulter, who pr» - sided, gave a resume of the negotiations some time ago with the Waikato Hospital Board. It was now being arranged that a committee from that institution should visit Te Aroha. when further particulars would be placed before them. Or. Kennedy said that figures should bp compiled showing the recent progress of the borough and district, number of births and casualties. Tho question of a site did not come into consideration in the meantime. It | was also necessary for the public to decide that the establishment of a hospital was a necessity. In a discussion that followed it whs stated that Te Aroha would be expected to find a portion of the neces- • sarv fund. The Mayor. Cr. Kennedy, and Messrs, j W. F. Bates and P. liygra\ *. were ! appointed n committee to gain the par- . ticulars from which figures could be ! placed before the Hospital Board comj mittce. ! The recently appointed jubilee celebration committee has decided not to accept the offer of the A. and P. Association in regard to the combined running of the latter’s Queen Carni- . val, and the jubilee celebration. Tho question of whether the celebration programme should be in show week ; has been left to the executive coni - ; mittee * * * Tho Waihou Domain Board has had ; another satisfactory year, its balance i sheet showing receipts £ SOS 13s. and ! expenditure £454 17s lid. A grant of £3OO had been received j from the Government for the re-erec-tion of the show shed. which had I been levelled to the ground by a storm, i It was decided that the scat made vacant by the non-attendance of Mr. i T. Stanley should be filled at the next j ordinary meeting. Mr. Hughes was I* unanimously re-elected chairman. Bro. E. A. Bruce was installed as president of the Orphans’ Club at the , first meeting of the season, when Bro. : X. <l. McLeod was invested with the ; past-president’s badge.