PATEA

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 58, 10 March 1937, Page 12

PATEA

TENNIS CLUB DANCE Due to the excellent arrangements, the Patea Tennis Club’s dance on Monday evening was entirely successful, novelty dances combined wrth Hooker’s dance band, entertaining the merry throng. Miss L. McKenna and Mr Milton were successful fn the Monte Carlo dance. The savoury supper was all that could be desired. Noticed among the dancers were Mesdames R. W. Haddow, E, Baker; Misses M. Naismith, V. Hunger, J. Clark, N. and B. Bourke, N. McClelland, O’Reilly, M. Gibbings, G. Taylor, B. Wilson, C. Lee, K. Rutherford, E. and I. Gibbs, Barber (Wanganui), R. Dallison (Waverley), J. Barnes, L. Wainwright, L. Bourke, L. McKenna, I H. Lithgow, J. Fitzsimmons, B. Hill, L. McKenna, Green, Shearman (Waverley), N. Hurley, H. Willis, Gibson. Walker, Bevan, Munroe; Messrs L. Tullock, G. Mawhinney, S. Jury, O. Cross, J. Peacock, J. Parsons, L. Moore, N. Gardiner, L. Fraser (Hawera), T. Cardiff, I. Harkness, S. Pauling, N. Blake (Hawera), P. Bourke, J. N. Anderson, C. Nicholson. P. Hurley, Minton, R. Clark, A. Hillgrove, A. Grant-Fargie, R. Adams, L. Fisher, W. Honeyfield, C. Haining, Shipman. HOSPITAL BOARD It was decided at the Patea Hospital Board’s meeting yesterday tnat no more relief be given in Waverley, but those requiring it be sent on to Patea, on the receipt of letters from Constable Shearman, of Waverley, advising that accommodation in Waverley was full and he knew of no persons who would take in the “gentlemen of the road,” and asking for another book of meal tickets, and Mr E. W. Mitchell, of the Empire Cafe, of Waverley, asking for official not’ fication that the cost of meals would be refunded on meal tickets in tne future. The secretary of the Wellington Hospital Division advised that In view of recent legislation, Hospital Board employees would be included in the Local Bodies’ Union and not the Clerical Workers’ Union. At tne executive meeting of the union this month the proposed schedule ot wages would be discussed. A circular on the proposed hospital executive officers’ association was received. Details of the capital expenditure for 1937-38 were required by the Department of Health. Dr. Bridgeman, medical superintendent, reported that at February 1

there were 27 patients in the hospital. 37 were admitted, 34 discharged, and on March 1 there remained 13 males and 17 females. Miss A. Harris, matron, reported that Miss Moore, of the Heqlth Department, made an inspection of trie hospital on February 18 and 19.