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LOCAL AND DISTRICT NEWS ASHBURTON, March li. Personal: Mrs W. H. Robinson, of Ashburton (South Canterbury District President of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union), Mrs J. W. Tinker and Miss E. A. Watson (Ashburton branch), will attend the annual Dominion Convention of the Union in Dunedin this week. Nor’-Wester in Evidence: Conditions in Ashburton yesterdav were brilliantly fine, the sun shining in a cloudless sky. A steady northwesterly wind blew to-day when the sky was lightly covered with hazy clouds. X-Ray Plant: At a meeting of the Ashburton Hospital Board to-day, on the report of the medical superintendent (Dr. A. J. Mason), it was decided to place £7OO on the estimates for the coming year for the replacement of the X-ray plant at the hospital. The plant, which is 12 years old. was reported to be obsolete, and an expenditure of £7OO would secure a plant which could be added to and the total cost of up-to-date facilities would be £I2OO.
Angling Report: Anglers’ luck was not of the best during the week-end. About a dozen fair-sized fish are reported to have been landed at the mouth of the Rangitata river on the Ashburton side yesterday. They made up the first good catch for some time. There were few fish at the mouth of the Rakaia, but a fair number came to the rods upstream. While the Rangitata, on the other hand, gave anglers good sport at the mouth, up-stream fishing was extremely poor.
Ashburton Hospital: At a meeting of the Ashburton Hospital Board, the report of the medical superintendent was as follows: Patients remaining January 31, 1935, 41 males, 30 females, total 71; admitted in February 55, 58, 113; totals 96, 88, 159; patients discharged in February 52, 51, 103; died 4, —, 4; totals, 40. 37, 77. Number of outpatients 199, outpatients’ treatments 275. X-ray examinations 57, laboratory reports 66, massage treatments 220, diathermy treatments 53. Ultra Violet Ray treatments 32, operations performed in February 66. Windows Defaced: A little more than a year ago the defacement of plate-glass shopwindows became something of an epidemic in Ashburton, but up to last week-end Yio further complaints had been received. This undesirable practice has broken out again in a small way, for two or three fresh markings were reported to-day. In no case, however, has the damage been sufficient to warrant shop-keepers going to the expense of replacing their windows. A suggestion that the new scorings number more than a few is explained by the fact that, when the sun strikes the windows from a particular angle, it appears that many of the cuts are ! fresh. It was stated to-day that had any of the defacements been deep, some of the windows would not have stood up to the pressure imposed on them by heavy nor’-westers. It is believed that on this occasion, as in others, the bevelled wheel of a cigarette lighter has been responsible for the markings. “Fortunate Ashburton”: “A realisation of how fortunate we are in Ashburton was one of the principal things made apparent at the conference,” said the secretary of the Ashburton Hospital Board (Mr A. Prentice) in a report to-day on the Hospital Association’s Conference in Napier last week. He stated that the burden of hospital taxation was not nearly so heavy locally as in other towns. The chairman (Mr W. G. Gallagher) said the satisfactory position of the Ashburton Board was mainly due to the pioneers who had laid firm foundations in the early days of the Board and kept it free from debt. Senior Cricket: Winning by 71 runs on the first innings, Ashburton B gained a threepoint victory over Ashburton A in the match played on the Oval. The A team w T ent to the crease first and compiled 122 runs (I. M. Hamilton 38. M. Keeley 32 and F. P. Fogarty 25). The opposing side closed its innings for 193, for the loss of nine wickets, J. Varcoe being the principal scorer with 52 runs not out. J. Pritchard made 46, B. McSherry 31 and J. B. Nicoll 22. Bowling for the B team, J. Varcoe took four for 11, while for Ashburton A. Hamilton took one for seven, G. Heasley one for 10, and P. Fear two for 22. Fairfield defeated Methven by 30 runs on the first innings. Batting first. Fairfield made 179 for the loss of eight wickets and declared (W. O’Grady 62 and G. Willis not out 55). To this Methven replied with 149 (E. A. Osmers 53, C. Jessep 48). The best bowler for Fairfield was G. Willis, who took five wickets for 35 runs, while F. Lenihan took four for 59 for Methven.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20055, 12 March 1935, Page 4
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