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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1805, 18 July 1913, Page 6

[ The Minister for Native Affairs (Urn Hon. W. H. Herries) stated last evening in reply to a question tbat tho Oovernment are adopting tlie policy of purchasing all tho Native lands along the routs of the proposed railway between Ntipi'r and Gisborne, which the owners urn willing to sell. One block he said, wa.'j purchased some few weokn ago, and ncgrilmtions in respect to many others nrn now in progress. The Public Health Committee reported •to yesterday's meeting of the J PiKjiit-ft I and Charitable Aid Hoard that Of) kh Tuples of milk had been taken under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, but no further details were given. It was decided to ask the committee to furnish the Idiind with particulars of tho result of tho analyses. The visiting days at the Wellington Hospital have been altered. In future, visitors will be received oil Wednesdays and Sundays from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., and on Fridays (special only) from 7 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. A special meeting of the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Hoard will bo held on Thursday, August 7, for tho purpose of considering the report of tho Charitable Aid Superintendent on tho outpatients' department, and recommendations from tho Hospital Committee in reference to in-patients and out-patients at the Wellington Hospital. The question of tho following-up of cases discharged from the various consumptive sanatoria of the Dominion, with a view to the collection of statistics as to the efficacy or otherwise of treatment, was raised by Sir. B. R." Gardener at yesterday's meeting of tho Wellington Hospital Board. The view was expressed that there should be some uniform system throughout the Dominion, and that the Government should have control of the work. The matter is to be' brought before the Inspector-General of Hospitals (Dr. Valintine) by a deputation this morning.