Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 72, 15 May 1945, Page 4

Local and General

Donations Acknowledged The following donations to the Whakatane Hospital are acknowledged with thanks: Flowers, Mr G. R. Kent; grapes, Mrs Parkinson; ap~ pies, Mr A. F.' McGougan; magazines Mr Steer; lemons, Mrs C, Wilson and Mr Diliicar; figs, Mrs* Nicol; l'rnit, Mr Signal; fruit and vegetable's Whakatane and Ohope Presbyterian Churches, and Onepu Anglican Church. Edgecumbe Patriotic Race Meeiting Word has been received by the Edgecumbe Patriotic Committee that the Minister of Internal Affairs lias given formal approval to the appli- 1 cation to run an Amateur Race Meeting on June Ith next. The meeting will be run under the established rules of racing, and the committee is now hard at work with the preliminary publicity and course arrangements. Whakatane Public Library At the monthly meeting of the Public Library Committee the above books were selected: So Many Lovr ers, L. Malmsley; Farthing Gate, Kay Carroll; Dasha K. M. Almcdingen; Carlofta Green, Doreen Wallace; Starbuck Valley R. Haig-Brown; it Never Rains, Victor Bridges; Live Dangerously, A- Iveillard; The Merry All'air, C. Gayton; The Arms and the Taylor Caldwell; Restless Beauty, J. Ames; The, Ghost Pulls a Jackpot, R. B. Saxe. Hospital Figures for April The following report giving figures for the Hospital for the month of April were submitted by the Superintendent. Dr. E. T. Dawson, to the Whakatane Hospital- Board last Friday: Remaining in hospital as at April 1 43 males 55 females; admissions during month, 57 males 84 females; discharges, 50 males 79 females; deaths, 2 males 1 female; remaining in at end of month < 50 males 57 females; births, 1G males 13 females: operations, major 8. minor 40; daily average occupied bed, 9.7.26.