A GREAT RESPONSE

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 31, 6 February 1931, Page 11

A GREAT RESPONSE

OFFICIAL THAXKS

.' (By. Telegraph.—Press'Association.)' ' :;'.'",'■ HASTINGS, This Day. In an official announcement made to the Press Association at Hastings last evening, the Minister of Health .(the Hon. A. 3. Stallworthy) stated . that 103 casualties, mostly cot cases, .had been evacuated to Palmerston North by. ambulance .train, ..while thirty cot cases would, be sent :there to-day by train. A semi-permanent base, hospitalis being established at. Napier. It will be fully, equipped with X-ray plant and electric 'light.■• The hospital will be situated at.the Napier racecourse. Pubic Health Department officers take control1 of sanitation to-day, s Seventy children, mostly from orphanages or from homes, leave for Auckland under the auspices of the Community Sunshine League, and will be camped at Motuihi Island. Another party of thirty will leave to-morrow. ' . The medical and nursing staffs in the two stricken towns, said Mr._ Stallworthy, are oh a' perfect'footing to meet every emergency. The response to the appeal for medical and'nursing assistance is so magnificent that sev r oral volunteers' have reluctantly had to be released to go back, to'their homes. The response for volunteers to lend and drive cars has been soi wonderfully answered that there-was a surplus" of a hundred cars offering to transport Napier residents to Hastings and elsewhere. ' ■ "As Minister of Health," said Mr. Stallworthy, '!I should - like through tlie Press Association to express most grateful thanks to the , medical and nursing staffs. : From1: Auckland to Wei-: lington the response has been magnificent, and has enabled eminent help to be! given'to all in need of it. The work of the allied services has been no less ,magnificent."