HEARING AIDS
FIRST CLINIC OPENED p.A. AUCKLAND, Dec. 3. The first clinic in New Zealand for aiding hearing was opened in Auckland this morning under the control of the Hospital Board. Others will follow at Hamilton, Palmerston North, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin, and also smaller towns. Hearing aids manufactured by an Auckland firm are supplied free by the hospital, as agent for the Social Security Department, and a £ls subsidy is paid to patients on any other type of aid approved by the Hospital Board. More than 425 applications have been received by the board and an order of priority has been fixed to deal with the most necessitous cases. The first patient to-day was Mr L. J. Ferry, of Epsom. “I shall be quite notorious,’' he said.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26635, 4 December 1947, Page 8
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128HEARING AIDS Otago Daily Times, Issue 26635, 4 December 1947, Page 8
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