AWAPUNI CONVALESCENT HOME.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 78, 31 July 1915, Page 6

AWAPUNI CONVALESCENT HOME.

THE TREATMENT OF PATIENTS.

A very interesting letter has been received bv Mrs Corkill, Stratford, is in the Convalescent Home, Awapuui Racecourse, Palmerston North, recouperating after an attack of measles. The Writer said that he and his mates are enjoying themselves immensely arid the people of the district are very good to them, helping and giving everything possible to make the men comfortable.

He writes: “This is a lovely place, with acres of lawns and gardens arid native bush, reminding one of home'. We are stationed in the stewards’ pavlllidn, arid we have a card rooiri, a’ reading rooiri, and ' a jgifrisical rooiri which caii boast of a piano. The Palmerston North Patriotic Society are looking after ns like kings, and it is hard to eat all the good things that ale give'll’. A sample of our fare for the day'is : Breaklast: Porridge, ham and eggs and coffee; 11.30 a.m., fruit; dinner at 1 o’clock: Soup, steak and kidney pie and vegetables, apple pie and teri; afternoon tea, 3 o’clock: fruit 3.30 p.rn.; tea 5 o’clock: cold ham and mutton, potato rissoles, bread arid butter, jam, pastry and cake; for supper we have tea, coffee, or hot milk and cake. The Patriotic Society are fitting- tip a tennis court, and have given us a football, so you see we can go in for plenty of sport. The Society is also putting in three hot water baths. For three days after, the doctor had noticed the symptoms of measles', I wris fed on a milk diet, and on the fourth morning I had a plate of porridge, and didn’t I enjoy it! One of the nurses here is an old Stratford girl, Miss Chittenden.”