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Convalescence for hospital patients will be a real pleasure at the new Morris Home in Kaiti. Luxuriously appointed, and situated on the Waimata River bank, it is now receiving its first patients.
And these are the very first to be admitted....Mr W. S. Swarbrick and Mrs H. M. Stubbings, photographed with the matron, Sister J. M. Mackintosh.
The staff on the first day....Sister Mackintosh, Nurses Dobbs and Sutton, and Mesdames E. White, K. Kahuroa, A. Gunn, E. Hema, and the gardener, J. Vermeulen.
"Shorty" Turner took a wager he could push his wheelchair up Hospital Hill in less than 15 minutes. He won. He did it in 9 minutes. "Shorty", back in 1946, pushed his chair from Gisborne to Auckland, 333 miles, in 10½ days for a wager of £100. Part of the Hospital Hill wager is going to the Intellectually Handicapped Children's committee.
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