KAMO HOT SPRINGS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2554, 31 August 1915, Page 6

KAMO HOT SPRINGS

' —6 AS A HOSPITAL 'FOE WOUNDED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Auckland, August 30. I A 'Whangarei deputation interviewed; tlia Hon. G. W. Kussellj Minister of Hospitals, in reference to tli© proposals to' utilise tho hot '.springs.- property at Kamo for hospital purposes.The Minister said lie: could not commit tho Government to . the expenditure ,of several thousand pounds without giving tho matter consideration. He would have to be (satisfied that further hospital accommodation was required in the Wbangarei district. He advised leaving the matter over until "tho end of /the present session. : In the meantime ho could give no promise. ' .

' Uncertainty regarding tfoo fate of Major, P. Stuckey, 6th (Hauraki). Company, lias been increased by a letter received from Mr. J. D. Dinneen,. formerly a member of . the teaching staff of the Auckland Grammar School, who went-to England to join tli'e Royal Flying Corps. Mr. Dinneen recently relinquished 'his commission owing to defective eyesight. .. Writing to a .friend in Auckland on July 19, Mr. Dinneen says:—"l saw Colonel.Plugge yesterday at his sister's house. Ho had a bad attack of Malta fever besides his wound,: but is all right now, and is soon going back. ' Ho; has had a wire from Jfejor Stuckey, saying, that tho latter is'wdl, but lie does not know where the wiro camo from; and it is the first he has heard of Stuckey; although ho had tried all he could to find out about him." Major Stuckey was reported on May 4 to havo' been wounded, /and after searching inquiries had been made, was officially reported early in July to be missing. The Wairarapa Farmers' Co-op. Association, land agents, Pahiatua, state by advertisement in this issue that they havo the cheapest farm they have ever offered for immediate disposal. The. propertyconsists of 188 acres, and is in a good Jacmjns district, -