NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20114, 7 December 1939, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Whangarei Hospital Additions

Brilliant sunshine encouraged a large crowd to attend the official opening of the new ward and reconstructed portion of the Whangarei Hospital on Sunday afternoon. Additions and alterations to the hospital have cost approximately £38,000.

Freedom From liLness. A record to which she would often point with pride, that during her lifetime she had never once had cause to seek medical aid for herself was enjoyed by Mrs. Mary Jane Warren, wife of Mr. J. Warren, Waipukurau, who passed away, at the age of 87 years, on Sunday.

Wairoa-H.B. Cricket

A suggestion that annual home and away matches between Wairoa and Hawke’s Bay should be instituted, was reported at a meeting of the executive of the Wairoa Cricket Association on Tuesday evening. Approval of the suggestion was voiced, the secretary, Mr. C. Gee, stating that he had been advised that the Hawtke’s Bay association was considering the proposal.

Social Security Approved ‘‘The Social Security legislation is working out quite all right for hospital boards,” said Mr. A. J. Moody, chairman of the Auckland l Hospital Board, at the opening of the additions to the Whangarei Hospital on Sunday. “It is not as bad as was at first thought,” continued Mr. Moody. “If the scheme continues it should be an excellent measure. Time alone will tell, as we have not yet got the full benefits.”

Wairoa Cricket

Advice that it had forwarded its support to the Wairoa Cricket Association's application for affiliation to the New Zealand Cricket Council whs received from the Poverty Bay Cricket Association at a meeting of the executive of the Wairoa Association this week. The Poverty Bay association took the opportunity of Wishing Wairoa every success in its future activities, and trusted that the two associations would enjoy many pleasant encounters on the field of play in years to come.—Special.

Ngaruroro Kivcr Control Scheme.A revised estimate of the Ngaruroro River control works, submitted to the Hawke’s Bay Rivers Board, showed that the cost of the whole of the works, from the beginning to their conclusion, would be £244,543. The sum of £3397 10s 4d was expended in the four weeks ended November 14, bringing the total cost to date to £184,473 5s 9d. In a report on the progress of the work, the engineer, Mr. G. E. Rochfort, said the output to date on the north and south levees was 1,030,852 cubic yards.

Wool “Prompt” Day Some doubt appears to exist as to when “prompt” day will be for ivool appraised in Gisborne on November 24 and 25. In the ordinary course, payments are made 14 days following sale, but as the schedules for the Auckland and Gisborne wools were not made available until after the appraisements were effected it is not known whether the 14 days’ limit can be adhered to on this occasion. In the case of Auckland, the schedules of prices did not come to hand until more than 14 days after the first of the valuations were made. In comparing the wool values with those of the past season, Gisborne growers find that they are 30s per bale, or about Id per lb., better off than the difference shown in the average rates at the Napier sales and the average price being given under the war-time purchase, for not only are the freight and wharfage charges between Gisborn'e and Napier saved, but the brokers’ costs are paid now by the Government, the latter representing the largest proportion of the saving.