Shortage of Doctors Moves to Protect Civil Medical Needs
The National Efficiency Board classifies the medical profession as essential. With 257 of 723 doctors on active service, the New Zealand Branch BMA proposes an Advisory Board of six BMA members and regional divisions to allocate medical staff, hear appeals, and advise ministers on mobilization, registration, and district needs during the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Efficiency Board
Council
New Zealand
British Medical Association
Wellington
Defence and Public Health
Auclland
Poverty Bay
Hawke's Bay
Wanganui
Palmeraton North
Nelson
Medical Practitioners Act
Minister of Defence
Council of the
B.M.A
Founder of the Red Cross Miss Clara Barton Chronicle
The article traces Clara Barton as founder and first president of the Red Cross. Born in 1821 in Oxford Massachusetts, she performed Civil War relief work, helped found the national cemetery at Andersonville, influenced the Geneva Geneva treaty adoption in the US, and led Red Cross for 18 years earning wide recognition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Clara Barton
Oxford
Massachusetts
Congress
Andersonvile
International Red Cross
Geneva
France
Miss Burton
United States
Christendom
Doan's Backache Kidney Pills Ad Copy
A New Zealand style advertorial extols overwork penalties and promotes Doan's Backache Kidney Pills as a remedy. It includes patient testimony from Mr A Stott in Linwood and Mrs Stoth two years later, claiming kidney relief after seven bottles. Sold by chemists for 33 shillings per bottle or six bottles for 168 6d, through Foster McClellan Co Sydney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uvan
A. Stott
Rolleston Street
Linwood
Christchurch
Dean
Rail line across distant west opens vast land for growth
Sydney reports the Adelaide to Perth railway nearing completion enabling regular service by year end. Vast dry lands north and south of the line are poised for value as pastoral country with water, while Orange businessmen report long leases and large blocks in Esperance Bay district. The West Australian Lands Minister notes 1,000,000 acre holdings and several 1,000,000 acre leases north of the line, with most land near the railway already reserved or leased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Port Augusta
South Australia
Kalgoorlie
West Australia
Adelaide
Perth
Orange
Esperance Bay
Albany
Eucla
Debate On German Goods Sale At Auckland Chamber Meeting
Auckland chamber members discussed a possible wartime ban on selling German made goods. They considered prewar purchases remaining in stock and resolved to oppose any embargo on German goods bought and paid for before the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ilegal
Council of the
Auckland
R. Burns
H. W. Hudson
Queen Street
I. Anderson
New Zealand
Aunt Branding Boy Faces Trial in Woolwich
Eliza Sammons a widow of Plumstead was charged by the N P C C with ill treating her nephew Frederick Hayhurst eight. Doctors reported seven burns on one leg and three on the other from a hot poker and she allegedly tied the boy by the hands to a cupboard hook and left him naked overnight. Sammons denied the acts but was sentenced to three months hard labour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolwich
England
Eliza Sammons
Margaret
Webley
Trench Tale of Frozen Mustache Amid Campus Snows
In Inverell New South Wales a letter from Stewauler G. H. Rainger recalls a cold dawn in a trench. A company chap dozes and wakes to a mustache frozen into a block of ice, provoking laughter before a fellow soldier frees him with scissors. The note also touts flu remedies and cough relief products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inverell
N.S.W
Stewauler
G. H. Rainger
Nazol Claims Superior Cough and Cold Relief
Advert says Nazol acts as a charm in tackling coughs and colds, penetrating and germ killing. It boasts 60 doses for 6d and is marketed as the most economical remedy in the Dominion, with thousands calling it the best cough and cold remedy.
Chamberlain's Tablets Promote Health and Mood
An ad touts Chamberlain's Tablets as a pleasant purgative for stomach and liver. It claims the tablets improve body and mind, leaving users feeling joyful and well. Sold everywhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
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Cameron
Ashburton
John Orr & CO
Hardware Merchants
East Street
Brooke
SALE
BAH and CO
Havelock Street
Dir. Wilson
Australia
H. C. Percy
Tobaconist
Astburton Drug Company
OCOA
John Orrantt Co
John Orr and Co
North British Rubber Co
Abbor Company
I. Tron
Ruxton and Thomas
RED Cross Society
Germany
Sigs
Sis
Beaths
Dominion
Herati
Lakewood
Shahabbas
Jin
Bin
Alf
Crisia
Kas
Miort
Ted Wd
SAS
Calin
Crockett E Jones
Crockett and
JONES
A. Mitchell & Co.,ltd
Trench
Mofter
Barnes
Foster Clark's
Tletcher Bros,’ Cash
NEW Zealand Insurance Company, Limited
Remier
Nicoll Bros
Orse
John Orr
Fast Street Re
WWE
Inga
John Qrr and Co
Wooll
Lever Brothers
Limited
Syomey
Motorology
Ceen
Painter
Havelock
Ateriaro
Bonningon
John
Oer and Co
John Orr.and Co
Trong
John Orr Vand Co
East Streat
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