SHORE NEED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 291, 9 December 1941, Page 5

SHORE NEED

GENERAL HOSPITAL DECISION DEFERRED " j Hospital accommodation on the North Shore was further discussed at a meeting of the Auckland Hospital Board last evening. * A letter, signed by seven medical practitioners on the North Shore was received, welcoming a proposal to provide a maternity annexe, but saying that the most urgent requirement for the North Shore .remained unsatisfied—a twenty-bed general hospital. They urged the board to proceed with the establishing of a .mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

general hospital equipped with an operating theatre, and facilities to deal with ordinary minor surgery. The need of a general hospital was also advocated by the Takapuna Nursing Division, St. John Ambui lance, and by the Devonport Borough Council. Mr. J. Guiniven suggested that the matter should be deferred, as a deputation was going to wait on the board. I Mr. J. Sayegh -said that he did not think that at present any buildings could be erected on the Shore, or anywhere else. It was decided to receive the communications and to defer decision. When a cycle she was riding collided with a tree last evening, Ailsa Kay, aged eight years, daughter of Mrs. A. Kay, of 15. Point Chevalier Road, suffered lacerations to the right thigh. She was admitted to the Auckland Hospital. Her condition is satisfactory.