HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION

Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1929, Page 8

HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION

MEETING OF PATEA BOARD. TENDERS FOR CHILDREN’S WARD. The Patea Hospital Board held its monthly meeting yesterday, there being present Messrs. C. R. Honeyfield (chairman), H. Middleton, J. Lupton, R. Seown, A. Christensen, W. Back, C. Johnston, R. Watt and W. Watkins. The disposal of an old horee ambulance, formerly used in back-country work in the Waverley district and now stored at Waverley, was left in the hands of the Waverley members. The Taranaki Board asked if the Patea Board had yet considered the question of the grouping of hoepital boards for the' purpose of treating tuberculosis cases in sanatoria. The board favoured a meeting of representatives of the Patea, Hawera, Stratford and Taranaki boards being held in some central place to discuss the question before the conference to be held at Palmerston North on December 3.

The chairman was appointed the board’s delegate to both meetings. “Wonderful tendering’? was how Messrs. Duffill and Gibson, architects to the board, described the'opening of nine tenders for the new children’s ward at the hospital. The tender of Mr. Bignall, Wanganui, of £3395 was accepted. The comparatively small sum of £505 divided the highest and the lowest tender, and two tenders were within £2 of each other. The average tender was £3685. ' It was decided to invite applications for the position of clerk of works. The medical superintendent, Dr. Simmons, reported that there were twentyfive patientfl in the hospital at the beginning of the month. Twenty-six had been admitted during the month, three had died and 24 remained.

CHARITABLE AID “FOXES.” - TWO “VERY TIRED” MEN. Two men in the Patea Hospital Board’s district receiving charitable aid were scathingly criticised by the board yesterday for their attitude towards the responsibilities of life. Neither 'will work and both have several children. Both were described as being too tired to work. In the case of one man it was stated he had a young family' whose condition was little short of disgraceful. He had been given odd jobs on several occasions but his ungratefulness and behaviour had made people tired of giving him work. He had complained of his teeth causing him illness'and the teeth were removed. Then a dentist offered to give the man a new set of teeth if he would dig his garden. This the man had refused to do. The other inan, it was stated, had also refused good jobs and seemed to care for* -little else than, 'hanging around the streets. “All ambition seems to have vanished,” said a member, “and they are not worthy of the name of men.” “I think we are rather encouraging them,” another member remarked. One member thought the children of the men should.be removed to an institution and the men should be left with no alternative but to work or to starve. “If you want to make a fox, leave the cubs with a fox,” he concluded. . It was subsequently'decided that the chairman and a member should interview the men concerned.

EVENING ATHLETIC SPORTS. CYCLE EVENTS HANDICAPPED. Mr. H. McCabe has declared the following handicaps for the cycling events to be decided at the Hawera Amateur Athletic Club’s meetinw at 6 p.m. today:- . ° One mile.—H. J. C. Kelsen scr, F. Brown 40yds, R. Kelsen, R. Rumball 60, H. McCabe 70, K. Foy 100, E. Woollett 180, E. Brosnah, A. McGill 230. Two miles.—H. J. C. Kelsen scr, F. Brown,. R. Kelsen 80yds, R. Rumball 100, H. McCabe 120, K. Foy 150, E. Woollett 280 E. Brosnan, A. McGill 330. *

OPERA HOUSE TALKIES. “IN OLD ARIZONA.” “In Old Arizona,” the new Fox Movietone attraction which opens at the Opera Homse, Hawera, to-night', is a story of the romantic south-west in the late ’nineties, the period before standardisation had erased its glamour and colour. Its incidents revolve around “Cisco Kid,” .a notorious bandit with a price on hishead; his love affair with “Tonia Maria,” a passionate half-caste girl, and “Sergeant Mickey Dunn,” of the United States cavalry, ordered to capture the bandit. Tom Barry, author of “In Old Arizona,” visualised Sergeant Mickey as a handsome Irish-American from Brooklyn; a boy with plenty of “it,” a heartbreaker, yet of- undaunted courage. A he-man in every sense of the word and a soldier first, last and all the time. That is the role Edmund Lowe plays. Dating back twenty years from the period in which he played a marine in “What Price Glory,” it has even more colour, more picturesqueness. Warner Baxter playa the Cisco Kid, Dorothy Burgess Tonia Maria, and a score of the leading film stars and featured players are in the supporting east. Raoul Walsh and Irving Cummings collaborated in the direction. Arthur Edeson was chief cam-era-man and E. H. Hansen chief soundman. The talkie short subjects include an all-takie comedy, “His First Lesson,” “The Kentucky Jubilee Singers” (variety), and Fox Movietone News. There will be a special talkie matinee to-morrow (Thursday), at 2 p.m. The box plane are now open at Miss Blake’s.