General News

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 224, 21 September 1945, Page 4

General News

Reported Safe. In an official Royal New Zealand Air Force casualty list, Flight-Ser-geant Allan Dallas Barr, Marton, previously reported missing, is now reported safe in Singapore. “Census” for Steamer Passengers. Passengers from Lyttelton oy the Rangatira on Tuesday night next, September 25 for Wellington, are advised that it will be necessary for them to have their census personal schedules completed and ready to hand over to the ship’s officers at the gangway on embarkation.

Victory Band Contest. It was agreed at a special meeting of the Band of the 2d N.Z. Armoured Regiment (Queen’s Own) that the band enter for the Victory band contest to be held in Timaru next March. With the view of raising the necessary finance, a series of functions will be held. These will include a garden party next month. Sandhurst Graduate.

An old boy of the Wanganui Collegiate School, Lieutenant Graeme L. Thorburn, has been awarded the Military Cross for services in the closing stages of the campaign in Italy. He left for England in 1938 to study electrical engineering, and shortly after the outbreak of war entered Sandhurst Military College, where he received his commission. Band Solo Contest.

Under the auspices of the Wanganui Bands’ Committee, a solo and quartette contest will be held in the Savage Club Hall to-morrow. There are 74 entries in the solo .contest, necessitating a start in the morning so as to complete in reasonable time. There are 19 entries for the quartette contest. The Mayor, Hon. W. J. Rogers, will present the medals at the end of the evening contests. Wool Industry.

Mr. C. G. Trotter, Hawera, a member of the New Zealand delegation at the wool held in London recently, will give an address in the Savage Club Hall on Wednesday of next week. Mr. Trotter, who is Dominion president of the New Zealand Woolbrokers’ Association, helped to compile a comprehensive report which won wide acclaim when put on the table of the House of Representatives recently.

Huts for T.B. Patients. Huts would serve a most useful purpose if attached to the clock at the Wanganui Hospital, stated the tuberculosis officer, Dr. W. A. Priest, in a report to the Wanganui Hospital Board yesterday. “There are cases which should be in hospital, or in a sanatorium, but, as is well known there is a lack of beds,” Dr. Priest stated. Reporting on his work during August, Dr. Priest added that clinics were held at Marton, Taihape Taumarunui, Hawera and Patea. Maori settlements were visited and the usual clinics were held at the Wanganui Hospital. The report was adopted.

Hospital Statistics. The average number of occupied beds per day at the Wanganqi Hospital during August was 1(2.8, stated ihe medical superintendent, Dr. H. L. Widdowson, in his report to the Wanganui Hospital Board, received at the monthly meeting yesterday. At the beginning of August there were 169 patients in the hospital, 244 were subsequently admitted, 225 were discharged, and 17 deaths occurred. At the end of the month 171 patients remained in the institution. • The radiologist, Dr. B. T. Hooper, reported that there were 829 cases for X-ray diagnosis during August of which 661 were out-patients and 168 were in-patients. In addition, 199 treatments were given, of which 191 were for outpatients.

Many Cases Attended. Statistics Supplied by the transport officer, Mr. W. B. McNaught, to the Wanganui Hospital Board disclosed that the St. John Free Ambulance attended 140 cases during August, of which 18 were due to accidents. The rest were medical and surgical cases. The Wanganui city area, with 111, contributed most of the cases. In addition, there were eight cases from Marton, live from Bulls and Kormiti, and one each from Ohingaiti, Rata, Kaitoke Fordell, Otoko Pa, Makirikiri Kukuta Pa, Waitotara, Maxwell, Kai Iwi, Hawera and Palmerston North. Four trips were made to Wellington by special arrangement. Last month the ambulance vans travelled 2711 miles, bringing the total mileage for the year to 18,214. considerably more than the 14,344 miles travelled during the corresponding period in 1944.