STRATFORD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16448, 31 May 1919, Page 6

STRATFORD.

FROM OUR aiiaiDKNl AGENT. May 30.—A telegram was received at tlie Hospital Board office this afternoon announcing tho success of the actingchairman’s mission to Wellington. The plans for the enlargement of the hospital have been approved and finance arranged. This will be good news for the staff, who are now in a chronic state of making shift because of want of space in the present buildings. A very successful ball was given last night in aid of the Nurses’ Memorial Fund. It was organised by the Returned Soldiers’ Association, effectively assisted by the ladies of the Red Cross Society. The vice-president of the association announced in the course of the evening a gift to the fund of £IOO from Mr. Charles Bayly, of Toko, and one of £lO 10s from Mr. G. N. Curtis.

At the Borough Council meeting the Mayor unfolded oomprehei sive plans for “getting a move on.” Sewers and water-supply, tar-sealed roads and park improvements, all are to come if only ratepayers will abandon foolish ideas about economy, and “let her go Gallagher.’’ Meanwhile the great want is not either of the aforesaid amenities, 'but simply houses to live in. A single room now costs as much as did a fourroomed cottage five and twenty /years ago, and to build for letting purposes is not in favour amongst capitalists. A War Bond is quite as profitable and infinitely less risky and troublesome.