N.Z. HOSPITAL AT SALONIKA.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1916, Page 8

N.Z. HOSPITAL AT SALONIKA.

A SECOND MISFORTUNE. EQUIPMENT DESTROYED BY FIRE. A Salonika correspondent, writing under date February 12, says: "The New Zealand hospital.here, under the control of Colonel McGavin, has been peculiarly unlucky. You will remember that the staff was aboard the Marquette, torpedoed in the Gulf of Salonika, losing a number of nurses. All their kit went down with the ship. A complete new outfiit arrived in the harbor for them last week, much to their delight, as the supplies that, they had been able to draw from ordnance were rather inadequate. Before the boat could get a berth to discharge she caught afiire, and every stick of tho Ne\v Zealand equipment was destroyed. The holocaust included about £so.' worth of luxuries, for which the men had personally subscribed. 1 . This is a hiost unfortunate chapter of accident*. No clue to the origin of the fire has yet been disclosed." News has been received by mail of the destruction by fire of an entire shipment of 32 cases of Red Cross goods from tho Canterbury-Westland branch of the Rod Cross". Tho fire took place in the ship's hold on the night, of her arrival in the harbor at Salonika. The value of the shipment was close on £ISOO.