CAMP HOSPITALS' BULLETIN

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2700, 21 February 1916, Page 8

CAMP HOSPITALS' BULLETIN

The following bulletin of military patients in the various' hospitals was issued at noon on Saturday:— Trenthani: Admissions Id, discharges 32, total remaining 61. Upper Hutt: Discharges 3, total remaining 21.

Tauhertnikau: Admissions 17, discharges 20, total remaining 111, ■Greytown: Admissions 4, discharges 2, total remaining 32. Wellington; Total remaining 28. Auckland: Discharges 3, total remaining 10.

Palmerston North: Admission* 1, total remaining 0. Dunediu: Total remaining G. , > . Wanganui: Total remaining 1. Patea: Total remaining 1. Masterton: Total remaining i. Pahiatua: Total remaining 1. Total, in all hospitals, 301'.

Lieutenant-Colonel E. M. Maitland, of tho Royal Naval Air Service, is the hero of a parachute feat which any professional performer might envy. He recently had to consider the problem whether a. man cquld descend by parachute from a balloon 10,000 ft. above the ground. He settled the question by .performing the feat himself. He ascended in a balloon over Surrey, and when it was 10,000 ft. (nearly two miles) above ground he made the leap. He fell several hundred feet before the paraclnite opened. Then lie gradually drifted to tho ground, the journev occupying about 15 minutes. It was bitterly coli£ and his hands wore nearly numbed.