FUTURE NEEDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 220, 17 September 1938, Page 16

FUTURE NEEDS.

AUCKLAND HOSPITAL.

CONFERENCE ARRANGED.

EXPERTS ARRIVE ON MONDAY

Tn order to confer with the Auckland Hospital Board in regard to a building programme, and future hospital requirements, the Director-General of Health, Dr. M. H. Watt, and the Hospital Division Director, Dr. K. A. Shore, are due to airrive in Auckland on Monday.

The chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board, Mr. Allan J. Moody, said this morning, that after conference with the board it was the intention that the contributing local bodies should be consulted and their views obtained. The time had arrived when the board had to assume responsibility, and they could not rely upon the past.

Mr. Moody said-that the visit of the Health Department representatives was at the request of the board. In view of the cry for years past about overcrowding at the Auckland Hospital, he personally considered that the board should build on land that it owned, and that .the first step should be a chest hospital ami a recovery hospital, so as to ease the position at the main hospital, and the board could then consider a scheme for the building of a -main base-modern hospital. The scheme which he visualised could not be carried out in a year or two, and would take several years to complete.

Mr. Moody added that a solution had to be obtained for present difficulties. They wanted to proceed on the right lines, and no decision would be reached until there had been the fullest consideration of every angle of the matter.