CHILDREN'S AND WOMEN'S WARD.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10264, 16 June 1911, Page 5

CHILDREN'S AND WOMEN'S WARD.

CHRISTOHURCH, Last Night. ■ The Hon. G. Fowlds opened the Children's and- Women's, Ward at the Ghriistchuivih Hospital to-day. The building cost nearly £20,000, whereof £4586 was- collected by ladies. In the course of a. speech, the Minister said they must continue the warfare agaanst consumption with isteadfastness and pertinacity. He was conscious that in the long ran they would be able to severely "scotch" if not kill this relentless foe of mankind. He. was glad to note the distinct- evidence that the death rate from consumption gave them every encouragement to pursue the «ampaign. He expressed pleasure at the cheerful manner in which the Hospital Boards of the Dominion were facing the new responisiibiiEties under the new Act, and he urged the necessity of hospitals having .subsidiary • institutions. He also referred to the necessity for the Cnristehurch Hospital Districts having tihe advantage of tihe services of a skilled bacteriologist. ,

A ROUGH PASSAGE. CHRJST(?HuiQH, Last Mjsht. The turbine ferry 'steaaner Maori had a. rough passage from Wellington last naghit. She spent nearly thirteen hours battling against a hard 'southerly. Captain < Aldweli stages that tine gale was about the worst experienced by him since in the ferry service. A fierce squall freqeuntly iswept the vessel, one bending the iron flagstaff on the bow, and tearing the bed-plate of the reel on which the wi(r© hawsers are wound from its fastenings on the deck. Tons of green water crashed against the forward end of the steel deck structures, sanashing shutters and tine thick plate of glass of the square ports of the social hall on the promenade deck, and flooded the room. The timber facing the off rail on the forward end of the .promenade deck, and even on the bridge deck, which is thirty feet or more above_ the; water-line, were also smashed in a nnm'ber of places. The forward end of the vessel showed plain signs of the violence of the sea. MINING FATALITY. HOKITIKA, Last NK#,t>. A miner named Charles Hill was killed in the -iVheel of Fortune claim, Stafford,,; this afternoon. The accident was caused iby the elevator bucket falling on him while he was working in a wd'l hole. Death was instantaneous. The' deceased was a married man with a wife and two children residing at Stafford.