NEW COSTLEY HOME BUILDINGS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14940, 13 March 1912, Page 8

NEW COSTLEY HOME BUILDINGS.

TO BE OPENED TODAY. The opening of the now quarters for jh« ; MSS of the Costley Home, tayatg _ with quarters for aged couples, wiU tg» . place this afternoon at three c.clock W P. M. Mackay (chairman of the AucKian Hospital and Charitable Aid Board) *m preside at the opening ceremony, in u past the nursing staff has been quarte ea n the main building, so that when W*. staff takes up residence in the . bmW ing there will be room lor more wmaiw in the main premises.. The new nurses' residence isi » J storey brick building. . There aie seven bedrooms and a large «^ng ro0 ™' K three sides of the building a verandah » placed. The elevations of the front oi to building consist of half-timbering:-JJj|*« half brick, and the premises present *3 cosv appearing For a long time paagea" couples admitted to the home ha** had to be separated from each ot&*r Through the enterprise of th. Board « J couplet who go to the Costley, £*»«£&« now P be able, to live together instead « being parted, in their latter days. y , , , The building for the aged coup les-JsjMl stantially built of brick, the inside tag verv cosy. It cowiste of six living rooms* each provided with a fireplace and a W social room where tables with bookj papers and periodicals are placed. S, at the front and back of the preou*} there verandahs,; « that the «*» ■ people will have, no occasion to BPi9iyH the reach of shelter on wet days. A" t»* , ; ; walk in the building are Petered. _ The contract for the two budding* VMM|| carried out by Mr. WE. Hutchison,, un s dor the imipennsion of Mr. G. W. A1150p,..,, the Board's architect. The contract m ; both buildings was earned out at, * cv g rthmhuk«:? ,* of £3000, .--