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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 198, 31 December 1941, Page 5

By the way those scissors look uncomfortably like medical ones. Well, let it go in any case. Everyone is pleased and happy. There are presents for them all, and Santa acts his part like a veteran.

And the dinner. You'd never believe it could take place in a hospital—but it did. Roast chicken, ham, green peas, new potatoes, mint sauce, vegetables, plum pudding and brandy, sauce. And the lot of it washed down (in the men's ward in any case) with a glass of ale.

So that was Christmas In the Whakatane Hospital. Not bad eh, and perhaps we will have to take the? - risk of a rush of patients next year if this description appeals to others,. W r e have' to thank Dr Dawson andf the matron for their interest and thotightfulness. Everything possibles was done to make the place happy and homelike. They, with the staff must be thanked from the bottom.of our hearts', for they can never guess what a lot of happiness they brought to many of us who illness and accident were unable t» be with our people. We must not overlook anybody in our appreciation even the sister who while oi> duty, had the bad luck to be called away to an emergency case just when the fun was at its higlit. On behalf of all who participated and benefited from the brightness of Christmas in the Whakatane hospital, I say thank you one and all.