LARGE NEW HOSPITAL.
I'S DECISION.
OLD BUILDING "ABOMINABLE."
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
INVERCARGILL, this day.
The Director-General of Health, Dr. v alintine, attended a special meeting of he Hospital Board to-day and strongly irged the construction of a new hospital at Kew, which he described as an •xcellent site.
Dr. Valintine described some of the arrangements in the old hospital as 'abominable," and said he could not approve of the reconstruction of the old uilding.
The board decided to proceed with a ' iew building, which will have 138 beds, and will cost about £100,000.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 165, 14 July 1928, Page 11
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