MILITARY SERVICE

Evening Star, Issue 23384, 29 September 1939, Page 3

MILITARY SERVICE

STAFF LEAVE GRANTED BY HOSPITAL BOARD Leave of absence would be granted to any members of the board’s staffs who enlisted for service either at home or abroad, was the unanimous decision of the Hospital Board at its monthly meeting last evening. _ This statement was made by the chairman (MrJ. W. Dove) and endorsed by members when leave of absence while on military service was applied for by three porters who had enlisted. Leave of absence was also granted Dr R. Kirk and Dr John Fulton while on military service. Other members of the board present were Messrs A. Steel, R. Walls, A. F. Quelch, Dr Newlands, Mrs W. Ross, Mrs D. G. M'Millan, Miss Farquhar, and Miss C. Fraser. MOTION OF CONDOLENCE. The board passed a resolution that the sympathy of the chairman and members be conveyed to members of the family of the late Mr H. J. Otley, exchairman of the North Canterbury Hospital Board for many years, whose death was recently reported. Mr Dove said that Mr Otley had rendered a great service to the North Canterbury Board and to the Dominion as a whole. He was a vice-president of the Hospital Boards Association of New Zealand from its inception. MOTION OF LOYALTY. At the commencement of ite meeting the board also passed the following resolution:—“That the Otago Hospital Board, as one of the local public bodies occupying an important position within the Dominion, desires to affirm its loyalty to His Most Gracious, Majesty the King, the British Empire, and to the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand. Every step will be taken so far as lies in the power of tliis board to assist in the prosecution of war and render every assistance in the present international crisis.” TRAINING AIDES. A report from the matron of the Hospital (Miss J. A. Tomlinson) was tabled. It dealt with the proposed system of training of the voluntary aid members of Red Cross and St. John. The report stated the aides would be taken into the Hospital for seven days of eight hours each, commencing on a Monday and terminating on a Sunday, the hours to bo from 8.30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2.30 to 6 p.m. Candidates to be eligible would need to be in possession of home nursing and first aid certificates and hygiene. If the aide did not possess a hygiene certificate a course on this subject could be taken. Approximately six lectures would be given on the various subjects by members of the registered staff of the Hospital, the report stated. The monthly statistics showed that there were 183 males and 181 females remaining as patients in the Hospital at the end of August. A recommendation that accounts totalling £3.463 7s 9d, due for maintenance of patients in the board’s various institutions, be remitted was adopted.