PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 894, 13 August 1910, Page 3

PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

(Prom Our Special Correspondent.)

■' Palmerston, August^.

.■ The monthly meeting of the Palmerston Hospital and Charitable Aid Board was held yesterday, . when correspondence was read from the Tourist Department, stating that it had. been decided to discontinue the free, treatment/ of indigent persons at Government Sanatoria, and offering to contract for each patient at 30s. per week. The offer was accepted. Sister,Tyler wrote. • rctsijping from the hospital staff, • and Miss 51. S. Brown intimated that she would take up her "duties on August 18. Archdeacon Harper and' Sub-Inspector O'Donoyau .waited on t*he board as, a deputation from' the District Nurses Society, and asked that a subsidy should be granted the society. The deputation pointed biit thafthe society relieved the-hospital of many cases, and covered ground which the hospital could not touch. ' They were quite prepared to allow the board representation on the.executive of. the society,, if a subsidy were granted, to see that it was properly expended. After discussing the matter the board-decided- that the ■ deputation ■ had opened. up a , wide question, which, it w-ould' take: time to' consider,-arid .the niatter.was held over to enable- tho,District Nurso; Society, to put their arid the. reasons for it, into writing. A considerable amount of discussion took place, on a complaint mado by-a country _resident -at,.tbo previous meeting that the .matron '.had refused to allow friends -to see a ; patient in the;hospital on other than tlio da.ys sot apart .for visitors. The chairman .stated that.he had inquired mto the matter, and a' motion wan 'jarried to the effect that the matron was justified in. her action, which : had been, fully.-endorsed ''by the: medical attendants. A.good.deal of.discussion tookplacp.on a iudfcinii that tho charges for patients should be'raised, but this did not find favour, and the proposal, •was lost, , the majority of the cornmi tteo being of opiiiiuu that tho hospital should bo even freer than , at present. It .was decided to adopt the recom-, mendation of the l'almerstou Firo Board to instal more up-to-date firo alarm appliances. , Tlio following return of voluntary donation's for the past five years was tabled: —Palrnorstoii, £3252; i'cilding, £174 4s. lid.; Foxton, £8 4s. 3d.-; Halcombe, £21 2s. 6d.; Orpus County, £301 ,10s. 6d."; ManawaW County, £65 2s. 10d. ;-Kajranga County, £46 Os. Id.; l'ohangina County, Ui 19s. (3d.; Kiwitea County, ..£l4 10s.j outsiclo : the' hospital district ; . and anonymous, £42 Is.' 6d.;.total, £3940' 11s. 4d. liaised on 'account; ol consumptive annexe, £750.'A cheque for £50 was received from Mr. A. (i. IJeunett, being the balance of the Leamiugton'Beuefit Fund. ..•' \ . ,

The monthly meeting of the.Friontily Societies' Council was- held' last night. The cpmmitteo reported.that a picture ontertainment had resulted in a 'good sum being raised for-the picnic fund, iind'it was resolved to thank all those who had assisted at the function: Tho Hospital Visiting Committee reported that there had not'been any; members pf Friendly Societies, in the hospital during the past month': ; ... Tho variety entertainment in aid of All Saints' Church Building Fund was repeated at the Opera House last night, when, there was another very ' largo -The , items contributed by Mr. Robertson and Miss Robertsonj of : Wellington, were enthusiastically encored. ''■■-'•■'. ..' "'' ; '■''.": C. W. Blackbourn, building' contractor, of this town, has been adjudicated a bankrupt. „ ' " . .;. Tlio fire brigade yesterday took up its quarters in tho new firo station, a largo and up-to-date brick building in Cuba Streot., Tho new' station, which was designed by aud erected under tho supprvisiou of Air. h. G..West, a local architect,' is built on modern lines, giving every convenience for speedy movements. • To-day also the fire-bell •was removed from'the old tower to tho. new olie in Cuba' Street. This was a rather difficult business..' but it was accomplished without the slightest' mishap, and the bell was ready for ringing by nightfall.