NURSES' HOME.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18503, 3 October 1925, Page 17

NURSES' HOME.

♦ "CRIBBING" OF RESERVES. DOMAIN BOARD DISCI SSION". i The contentious problem ot thfr seleci tion of a si to for the proposed Nurses' I Home Las again beon revived, It. wa:. ! discussed at yesterday's meeting of the j Christ?hureb Domains Board, which [ body, after considering it. referred it i for fiirthor discussion to a future mooting or the Board. The North Canterbury Hospit.il Board wrote stating that the plans of the proposed Nurses' Home had been altered so a? to stand en a limited area, and altered as they were, the piece of ground commonly known as the j horso paddock would hold the building. Mr H. J. Beswick said that, the Board should not consider tho question of a site for the Nurses' Home in a. viiul / j;.d.ive spirit. It would be a calamity if it wero built on the site tho Hospital Board had permission to use for its erection—the kitcheu carden site. Now tho Board had come with the proposal that the "Homo should be crccitxl ,011 some high land fronting Riccarton road —the horse paddock site. He thought the Domains Board should give the Hospital Board every assistance in the direction of securing this site, provided the con sent of the • Acclimatisation Society, j which had the lease of this area, could bo secured. He thought tho Board should express an opinion as to whether it considered tho kitchen .garden or horse paddock sites the more suitable. One suggestion he had to make, hosv ever, was that the Domains Board should take back the garden site and assume control of the whole of tho Acclimatisation Society's ground which was not immediately required for the Nurses' Home. He moved that- tho Board should be in sympathy with the nroposal to erect the Nutsos' Home -i> the horse paddock site, provided that satisfactory arrangements wor#, made bv tho Hospital Board with the Acclimatisation Society, and provided that the Hospital Board handed over to the Domains Board such parb of tho Acclimatisation Society's frround as was not required for tho building. Mr A. McKellar seconded the motion.

Why Not Another Site? Mr A. D. Ford said ho was opposed to any part of the domains being "cribbed" away from the Domains Board for building purposes by the Hospital Board or anyone else. Ho thought the Hcapital Board should seek land further out of tho City, and he resented, ho said, tho manner in which the Hospital Board had gone over the beads of the Domains Board to Parliament to secure the kitchen garden site.

Dr. C. Chilton also opposed granting the horse paddock site, and said ho-, did not think tbo Hospital--'Board had fully explored all the possibilities in its search for sites. Jlr W. H. Winsor also opposed the granting of the horse paddock site. He did not have any confidence in tho Hospital Board's plan of beautifying Ricearton avenue. He was not saying anything against the architects, because they had evidently done what they had been told, but ho did object to the old corrugated iron fences, the gaol-looking structures, ;md the morgue. Tho Hospital Board had no't considered the possibility, of "going up in tho air" or building additional storeys to the existing buildings. X am against putting up a.ny more buildings of the old design there.— A member: A dozen different designs. (Laughter.) * Mr Beswick: I'll withdraw my motion. It was finally decidod to defer the matter for further consideration until the next meeting. Mr E. F. Stead said that the Acclimatisation Society thought the Domains Board had treated it well in the matter, and would endorso the Board's decision.