NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 280, 31 August 1915, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

H OSPITAL ARRANGED bi.N TV. FOR NEW ZEALAND WOUNDED AUCKLAND, Monday. The Hon. Mr Russetl, addressing the Hospital Boslrd, pa'ci the sick and wounded at the front wsre first forwarded to Alexandria, Cairo, and other places so that any that were soon .Vole to return to the dring line could do so with the utm>st despatch. Another section was sent to England. Up to the present it had been suppose'.] that men returing +o N'e.v Zealand ghruid be only those o.ot liko-y to soon he able to get back 1.0 the front. After leaving hospitals they would return to their homes, so the strain upon medical men and hospital's :f New Zealand would not be so great as anticipated. He intended as far as possible to . distribute returning wounded to hosptals nearest their own homes. Serious surgical cases must b e dealth with at the main hospital, secondary cases at smaller hospitals, wher e surgical and nursing staffs were able to cope with them.