PAEROA HOSPITAL.
PLANS BEING PREPARED. DEPARTMENT WILL ERECT IT. IF THAMES BOARD REFUSES. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Friday. Plans and specifications for a maternity hospital at Paeroa, which the Thames Hospital Board refuses to erect ire being prepared by the Department >f Health.
"In the event of the Thames Board Persisting in its resolve not to proceed with the erection of the hospital, then the proper process will be adopted by the Health Department to erect the hospital at the expense of the Thame? Board," declared the Minister of Health the Hon. J. A. Young, to-day. "For some years the board has held the capital required for the purpose, including the Government subsidy on the money collected by the people, and the gift oi and, as well as the levies from local bodies.
"It must not be forgotten that the matter has been the subject of an order of the Supreme Court, made in February, 1924. ilr. Justice Stringer then Ordered that 'the board shall erect on the property held by the trustees a rnaterInity home containing six beds, and a casualty ward containing two beds.'"
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 165, 14 July 1928, Page 11
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