MILITARY HOSPITALS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2661, 5 January 1916, Page 3

MILITARY HOSPITALS

3 <f j Trentham: Admissions 10, discharges 2, total remaining SO. 3 Upper Hutt: Admissions 5, total remaining 61. Tauherenikau: Admissions 7, discharges " 8, total remaining 26. _ • P Grey town: Admissions 2, discharges 3, ' total remaining 5. Palinerston North: Admissions 1, total ; remniniiig 8. 5 Auckland: Total remaining 17. b Dunedin: Total remaining 3. Wellington: Admissions 1, total rernains ing 25r AVanganiii: Total remaining 2. Oamaru: Total remaining 2. t May Morn: Admissions 2, discharges 3, total remaining 5. , Eangiotu: Admissions 8, discharges 1, 1 total remaining 7. > Total, in all hospitals, 241. j i

I confess that the Australian is full of daily surprises for_ anyone that watches him face death in less romantic circumstances, writes Captain Bean. Some time since a cook was preparing his company's dinner when an eight-inch shell buried itself within a few feet of him, and then exploded. Out of the bilious green-brown dust _ there slowly emerged a figure scrambling on hands and feet like a beetle. "Damn those blanky snipers" was all it said, as it spat the dust out of its mouth in front of ail interested audience.