Elderly Blood Donors

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 47, 28 January 1949, Page 8

Elderly Blood Donors

People over 65 years of age have won a fight for the right to be blood donors in Britain. Many of them who wanted to give their blood in the past were turned down by the Ministry of Health because of their age. According to most medical men age makes no difference to the suit? ability of a person’s blood for transfusion purposes. Not Rotorua The best place yet found for the boring of the thermal heat in New Zealand is not at Rotorua, said Mr P. A. Kusabs, to the Whakatane Rotary Club on Tuesday. Tests had been carried out wherever thermal activity occurred and it had been found that Kamo, North Auckland, was the most satisfactory place for thermal heating. He Won’t Fly Home A sociable homing pigeon walked into the door of Mr R. George’s house at Kawaha Point,, on Friday drank some water, then visited a nearby residence. The bird was tagged N.Z. 38 Mata—42. Mr George believes that, it may have been sent by plane and released Tiere so it could fly back to Matamata. But it’s been nice weather—he’s probably decided to walk! The Gate Was Open. A farmer near Hamilton has reason to lament the carelessness of people who do not fasten gates securely. One night he retired to rest believing that the cows were safely confined to a paddock of chou moellier. Adjacent to the chou moellier was nearly a quarter of an l acre of the more expensive types of gladioli. Next morning the cows were all in the gladioli paddock and of the hundreds of plants which were just coming into flower there was only one which was not irreparably damaged.