WAIKATO HOSPITAL DISTRICT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 47, 24 February 1923, Page 11

WAIKATO HOSPITAL DISTRICT.

LARGEST IN" DOMINION". ~ ,r( (10-llil'O- Wltll til" J* '"{The'w.e H?Sul Board ■ k presented at the Piako Gonntv. Coimcirs representative on the Board, ft. "d '-Tho Waikato Hospital d strict, in noint of ares, is the l»r{re*t in the Dominion, ex.ending from Port Waikato to Mok'u River, thence to the Haivkp-i B.iv boundary. According to the latest return there'are 27 contributing bodies, representing a capital val.tc of £34.000, 000 and a population of 87.000. A considerable area of the Taupo district is to be cut out of Waikato and merged into Hawke's Bay district, where more community of interest exists, a district nurse being located there at_present." The report also stated that in addition to the main hospital at Hamilton, the Board administered a cottage hospital at Kawhia, and plans and specifications for a maternity home with ;i ward for a<vid?nt cases was being tendered for at Matamata. the late Mr. Brown of that town, having donated several acres of land for the hospital. Te Kuiti was raising a loan for a, cottage hospital, and Huntly had mad* little orograM toward* * botpitti. j