THE N.Z. HOSPITAL

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 232, 29 September 1915, Page 9

THE N.Z. HOSPITAL

■ SCHEJIE FOR ENLARGEMENT. (From Our Special Correspondent.) LONDON, August 12. So great i» the preeeure on the New Zealand Hospital at Walton-on-Thames-there are already 05 men there, and fflaHV others cortld he drafted there— that a meeting of the hospital committee til j g pIRCe this al " t<>r " oo n in order W decuw a soheme for enlargement. Ihe hospital authorities are in close communication with the War Office, wlrieh has now issued instructs to every command to keep a list of New Zealanders amongst the wounded in ho*;,ital •n order that they can be cent to Walton ac soon as ever there is room for them. It is hoped that the X-ray apparatus which is not yet quite ready. will be installed this week. The ridiognpher will be Dr. Grace, eon of the late Hon. Dr. Grace. M.L.C.. of New Zealand. The ambulances at present in use have been lent by the Red Cross Society. hut the hospital will very shortly have three of its own. Captain Harden. V.C., of Wellington, went down to the hospital yesterday and «*! a talk to all the New Zealamters there. He was wounded in the Dar danelle-5, and left to-day for the New Zealand Convalescent Home for olljoere at Brighton. * Three visiting days a npel; have heen fixed for the hospital, and all vieitore are required to h»v e pafcsiw which, however, are very simply ohta.ned from any officer >f the hospital, or from the offices of the N.Z/W.C.A. The High Commissioner and Mrs. Mackenzie spent last week-end at Weynfouth, where there are a hundred New Zealandere at the Australian and Neu Zealand Base Depot. The original ■Rfi»4 wag that the men sent down there should be freed from convaleeoent homes and ready to go into triibing before being sent back to the Dardanelles, but Mr. Mackenzie, who talked to all the men. finds a number *hete who are too seriouelv disabled to return to the Dardanelles" He was greatly dktrowed to find no lees than ten cases of semi blindnes- amongst the hundred. The men. however, were in wonderful spirits, and express them-selve* ac more than satisfied with their treatment. A very kindly act on the part of Mr. Mackenzie, on. his return from the base wm the dispatch of a private letter t.i the next of k'.n of each of the men he met, describing ho« he had found them in Health and spirit*. Mr. \laokenzie and hi- daughter ve«terdiy visited twenty-four New Zealandertf who are in Mount Vernon Hospital .it Hampstead. While they uerr there fourteen were well enough to be dispatched to the New Zealand Hr» pital at Walton. All were being most excellently treated, as the flonrr*. Aweet*. etc.."on every man"* table testified. Mr*. Mackenzie ha« already taken up her residence at Walton, and the other* follow shortly. A gentleman who k> makins a grncout gift to the New Zealand Hospital ha* written to the High Commissioner afollows: I mipht way 1 consider the opening of the hospital liy you a gre.it su.'cere in 'rverr way, and-'an- object leseoTi to us slow Britsshei* of- rapid work and successful finance."