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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 November 1942, Page 5

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LEAGUE OF MOTHERS MONTHLY MEETING. ("Times-Age” Special.) Mrs R. H. Every presided over a large attendance of members at the monthly meeting of the League of Mothers held in St Andrew’s Hall yesterday. An admission service was held, foui' new members being enrolled. Members of the League volunteered to supply the free supper to soldiers on November 29. The League will hold a church parade at the Methodist Church on November 22. Mrs Rayner gave the thought — “Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” Miss Armstrong sang two solos, which were greatly appreciated. Miss Higginson, matron of the Greytown Hospital, gave a most interesting address on the treatment of German prisoners of war during 1914-18. The speaker described the hospital in Surrey where she nursed. This was _ a large, beautiful two-storeyed building with extensive and well. laid out grounds, being surrounded by two rows of barbed wire 12 feet high. No one was allowed in or out of the grounds without a pass.. The hospital accommodated 1200 patients and was well equipped with operating theatre, X-ray room, etc., while there was a very pretty chapel within the grounds, where services were held every week. Most of the wards were large and well ventilated, some having 20 to 30 windows. Each ward had 55 patients, and during the day was in charge of two nurses and 8 orderlies, while at night one nurse and 8 orderlies were on duty. Consequently, the nurses had to work extremely hard. All the patients were well looked after, and food was good and sufficient, the British as of yore showing kindliness to their enemies. Mrs Every thanked Miss Higginson for her address, expressing the hope that Allied prisoners of war in Italy and Germany today would receive similar humane treatment.

SURGE TOWER REPAIRS SUBSTANTIAL STRENGTHENING PROPOSED. At yesterday’s meeting of the Wairarapa Electric Power Board, the engineer, Mr H. Keenan, exhibited a very interesting blue print of the proposed work to be carried out for the purpose of strengthening the surge tower at Kourarau. The repairs proposed, he said, would make the tower sufficiently strong to resist an earthquake double the intensity of that recently experienced. The chairman: “I hope I shall not be here if there is an earthquake heavier than the one we had.” (Laughter). Mr Keenan’s explanation of the work was keenly followed by members of the board and many questions were asked by Mr W. Howard Booth and satisfactorily answered by Mr Keenan. Card Party. At the weekly card tournament held by the Boy Scout Committee the prizes were won by Mesdames Ticehurst Sent., A. Jensen, Mrs Thompson and Mr F. Jackson. Damage to Electric Power Wires. Mr H. Keenan, engineer to the Wairarapa Electric Power Board, reported to the meeting of the board yesterday that considerable damage had been done to power lines under the board’s control during the heavy gale last week. He exhibited a chart which showed that during the height of the gale electric wires all over the district were a blaze of fire, as the result of the wires clashing together. It was probable, he said, that some of the wires may have been almost burned through, considerable damage, at least, having been done to them. Church Service.

A Church of England service will be held at Waihakeke on Sunday next at 2 p.m.