PERSONAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3971, 16 July 1929, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Miss E. Owen, of the nursing staff of the Wellington Hospital, who has been spending hdr annual leave with her parents in Foxton, resulm!ed duty on Saturday. The friends of Mrs. J. V. Bell, of Avenue Road, will regret to learn that she is at present an inmate of the Palmerston North Hospital. Mr. W. Roach, of the staff of the local Bank of New Zealand, who recently underwent an operation in the Palmerston North Hospital, resumed work vesterday.

Subject to the concurrence of Ladv Wilson, the Palmerston North Hospital Board decided at yesterday’s meeting to nanrtje the new two-storey block “The Wilson Memorial Wards.” With the golden anniversary of their wedding less than a year off, Mr. and Mrs. George Ryan, of Devonpoct, Aiwikland, died within 48 hours of one another. Mrs. Ryan, who was 72 years of age, passed away on Friday after a long illness, and her husband, who was 74, died on Sunday. The couple had lived at Devonport for many years. For three years before her death, Mr. Ryan had nursed his wife, who was blind. He himself was a retired gardener, and suffered from heart trouble. The failing health, of both had caused their many friends concern for some time. Both had been confined (o their beds for a month before their deaths. Congratulations were extended to Mr. J. IC. Hornblow at yesterday’s j feeting of the Palmetrston North Hospital Board on his election to the executive of the New Zealand Hospital Boards’ Association. In returning thanks, Mr. Hornblow mentioned that he had been connected with the board foiv nearly 20 years, and bad found particular pleasure in serving'. There had been times when hard knocks had been given and taken, but when members had left the board room, all differences off opinion had been dropped. Mr. Hornblow said he hoped that that policy would continue, and that the promotion of the welfare of the institution would be the aim of all members. He, personally, would do his best not only to foster the interests of the Palmerston North institution, but hospital progress in the whole Dominion.