WAIRARAPA NEWS
, MASTERTON NOTES At a meeting of the Claims Board of the AYairara])a Patriotic Association; letters were read from the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defence, Btating that the question of increasing the mufti allowance' to discharged soldiers from 30s. to £4 was uuder c.iusideration. A sitting of the Conciliation Council is to be held in Jlaeterton on February 26, to deal with the builders' labourers' dispute. Plans for a new nurses' home in connection with the Masterton Hospital have been approved by the Central Committee or the Wairarapa Hospitul and Charitable Aid Board. The home will contain twenty bedrooms, besides living rooms and emergency accommodation.
The following resignations have bnen veceived by t.lia Wairarapa Hospital end Charitable Aid Board: Sister Pickering (Pahiatua); Nurses Hogg and Crow* (Greytown); Nurses Kelsall, Humphries, Wallis, and Caverhill (Masterton). At a meeting of the Claims Board of the Wairarapa Patriotic Association it was decided to vote £115 for the relief of New Zealand prisoners of war in Turkey and Germany, to be used at the discretion of tlie High Commissioner. The following tenders were received for the furnishing of the Returned Soldiers' Club ill Masterton: W.P.C.A., Ltd., £(536 17s. (accepted); Scoullar end Co., Ltd., £552 3s. Scl.; Vcitch and Allan, Ltd., £599 19s. 6d. ■ Bro. A. Hippon has been appointed to represent the Masterton Oddfellows' Lodge at tlie district eonfeienco, to he hold in AVellington on February 2G. At the end of last month there were. 38 patients jn the Masterton Hospital, 40 in the Oreytown Hospital, and 13 in the Pahiatua Hospital. Accounts nmounting to £1105 16s. 7d. were passed for payment at a meeting of the Central Committee of the Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board on Monday.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 125, 13 February 1918, Page 8
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288WAIRARAPA NEWS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 125, 13 February 1918, Page 8
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