KING COUNTRY NEWS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 643, 20 April 1929, Page 16

KING COUNTRY NEWS

MEDICAL ASSOCIATION’S WORK (Front Our Own Correspondent) TAUMARUNUI, To-day. An important advance was made at the annual meeting of the Ohura Medical association, over which the president, Mr. W. Sanaison, presided. It was resolved, in view of the greatly increased number of members of the New Zealand Workers’ Union in the association’s district, that the committee should consist in future of four members of the association and four of the union, with the president and secretary. In accordance w r ith this decision the following executive was elected: —President. Mr. W. Sandison; secretary, Mr. G. Denison; Messrs. E. Meacham, C. Kibblewhite, K. Hyde. J. Thompson (for the Workers’ Union), and Messrs. J. F. McClenaghan, G. Denison, J. Risk and P. Dons (for the Ohura Medical Association). Dr. Turnbull’s application for a month’s leave of absence was granted, his request for the payment of mileage fees being held over for an investigation of the coming year’s probable finance. A large number of guests assembled at the annual smoke concert of the Taumarupui Fire Brigade, the superintendent, Mr. H. Ross, being in the chair. Responding to Mr. A. S. Laird’s toast of ''The Taumarunui Fire Brigade,” Mr. Ross mentioned that the fire loss in the board’s district during the past year had been only £976, which, considering the value of the buildings, was very smal. The Mayor, Mr. G. E. Manson, presented the following honours won by members of the brigade in the past 12 months: Five years’ medal, Second Foreman E. Wakelin; Deputy G. Robinson, First Foreman O’Connor, Firemen D. Findlay, and T. Morgan, two-year-bars; Fireman J. Pierce, three-year certificate. Referring to the closing of the Ohura Maternity Home by the Taumarunui Hospital Board, the Acting-Director-General of Health, Wellington, advised the board at its last meeting that he was giving instructions for a responsible departmental officer to investigate the matter, and deal with the board directly. It has been decided to apply to the Health Department for the erection of an isolation ward at the hospital, a work urgently recommended by the medical superintendent, Dr. W. E. Fisher. The chairman’s honorarium for the ensuing year was fixed at £75.