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Glass show-case exhibits are maintained at Auckland and Wellington Railwaystations, with monthly changes of material. Show-cards with health messages changed bi-monthly are displayed in tram-cars and motor-buses throughout New Zealand. In a fixed proportion of railway carriages, a show-card, changed once a year, carries a health message for railway travellers. The mobile exhibit went on tour in the spring term, showing four days in Hamilton, two days in Huntly, and three days in Rotorna. During this period it was visited by 3,505 school-children and 1,035 adults. Smaller exhibits were made available to locally arranged health education efforts at Milton, Balclutha, Wellington, Christchurch, Putaruru, Lower Hutt, Whakatane, and Opotiki. Films and Visual Aids.—The health film library now comprises 198 titles, multiple copies of some of these bringing the talkie film total to 402 films. The services offered by this library are being increasingly accepted and used not only by departmental officers, but by an increasing number of Hospital Boards, who use the films for nursetraining purposes. During the year, 3,151 film showings were made to a total attendance of 191,072 persons. A talkie film was produced by the Department on the New Zealand School Dental Service. Scripts are under preparation for two talkie films on tuberculosis. One film strip, Cavity Filling and Preparation, was made for the Dental Division, bringing the total of our own produced film strips to 13. Five new 16 mm. sound projectors were purchased during the year to replace worn-out or unsuitable machines. Pamphlets. —Difficulties in paper-supplies hamper the production of pamphlets and leaflets. During the year the following were printed : Copies. Four pamphlets on nursing recruitment .. .. 50,000 Four leaflets on tuberculosis .. .. .. .. 40,000 One dental story, " The Sick Princess " .. .. 50,000 One maternal welfare book, " Suggestions to Expectant Mothers " .. .. .. .. .. 100,000 One pamphlet on Dental Nurse recruitment .. .. 10,000 Newspapers and Magazine Publicity. —Advertisements have been continued throughout the year putting health messages before the public through fortnightly changes in all newspapers and monthly changes in most of the circulating magazines of the country. Pulls of these advertisements, 20,000 copies, are obtained and circulated to schools and others interested, and used on our mobile and other exhibits. Radio Talks. —The daily ZB network talks were not resumed during the year owing to staff shortages, but the thrice-weekly YA network talks on health subjects were maintained throughout the year. DIVISION OF NURSING I have the honour to present my report for the year ended 31st March, 1948. At the beginning of the financial year I was granted two months' leave to attend a series of international nursing conferences held in the United States of America and Canada between 20th April and the end of May. These meetings, which were held in New York, Washington, and Atlantic City in the United States of America, and in Toronto and Montreal in Canada, consisted of the Grand Council of the Florence Nightingale International Foundation and subsidiary committee meetings, the Education Committee of the International Council of Nurses, the Grand Council of the International Council of Nurses, and the General Congress of the International Council of Nurses. The two Canadian meetings dealt with the training of nurses, both undergraduate and post-graduate.

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