NORTH SHORE'S NEEDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 196, 20 August 1930, Page 10

NORTH SHORE'S NEEDS.

HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION.

FINANCIAL DIFFICULTY.

NO HOPE • FOR THIS YEAR

The request for the establishment of a hospital on the North Shore was again discussed at a meeting of the Hospital Board yesterday. Remarks had been passed regarding the recent fatal accident at Albany, and the length of time it had taken to get '/the. injured to hospital. . . j

It was pointed out that there .'is ; a population of 23,000 on the North Shore-and that harbour transit makes it very difficult to-get injured people into hospital.

Mr. 'E. H. Potter moved a motion, the effect of which was that the matter. of hospital accommodation on . the . North Shore should be considered immediately by the building committee, and that a scheme should be brought-down to'give effect >to "the proposal within the'next nine months.

Mr. J. Eowe:- We're o'nly wasting time. We have already affirmed-'' the principle of a building scheme. What is wanted over there, is a little hospitality on the part of the people, not a hospital. When a woman who has met with a serious accident has to wait on the roadside in wet clothes for the ambulance, there 'is something wrong. : The chairman, Mr. W. Wallace, .said the whole thing, "boiled itself down to a question of finance." What, was wanted was something in the nature of a receiving hospital, or >ecovery hospital. The Government would 1 not allow, the hoard to go into the scheme to erect an expensive hospital, on the North Shore. ;The Ferry Company had made arrangements to transport-accident cases' at any hour of the -night. Something might be d.o'ne next year; but there Avas no hope of the Government allowing the expenditure this year. He ventured'to suggest that perhaps: some i arrangement could be made with a nrivate hospital on the North Shore. What was more pressing and more iirgent.was the ,ealargement of the. infirmary, so •that some'3o beds could be relieved at the main, hospital. The matter of hospital tion on the North Shore-was referred to the building committee, to bring forward a scheme. ■'■<•..• ','?'• '•