MANAWATU NOTES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 167, 10 April 1920, Page 7

MANAWATU NOTES

Although heavy rain continued to fall un-.il after midnight on Thursday, yesterday morning iroke-fail"and . was followed by a warm day and the ground soon began to dry up. The humeri weather is mcst suitable to the growth of bat'i root plants and grass. At' the. meeting of the Palmerston Xor"i Hospital Hoard a. statement, wis submitted showing that the amount to bs' contributed by levies on local bodies for tho ensuing year for hospital and charitable aid maintenance was X'VGGG lis.

Tin question, of supplies to the Palmerston, North Hosoitnl bv the Health Department. w,-*s under discussion at ike meeting,.of the board yesterday. The general opinion of members appeared .to be that it was only right fli,\? \he board should deal with- local firms who paid rates, rather than be tied In got .their supplies'.from a.Government Department wlii.'li might in many cases not have the particular lino,*'.-wanted. No definite course was decided upon in view of the fact thai contracts had.-ilrcndy been let for the ensuing year. In the course of the discussion Mr. -Murdoch pointed out tli.it drygs purchased from wholesale houses sometimes had the seals-broken, an.l in many case-! tlicy had been "broken down." If, however, they bought their supplies from the Government direct their representatives _in Parliament would make 'their voice? lipard if anything went .wrong. He considered that there would be far less ehanc! of the board being "taken down" if they purchased through the Government instead of from merchants.

A discussion took Dlace at the meeting' of tin Palmerston North Hosnt.il Board .on a suggestion that local, srirls be precluded from being appointed as probationers at the local hospital. The chairman said that in the past it had bee", thought that; it was not advisable to hava local girls as probationers, but in reply to n question said there was no absolute rule against their appointment although with the sanction of IV board the .practice of appointing such had been , discouraged in the na?t. Mrs. Gill said that she had frequently brought up tlia matter, but on each occasion she had been. turned down. She understood that the'opposition had been occasioned by a peport that some time in the. dim past a. local probationer was supposed to have carried tales out of tin hospital. ' It was eventually decided to call for applications in the local papers as well as in those outside the district /■:'"•