NEW ENTEANGE TO HOSPITAL

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24369, 22 September 1944, Page 6

NEW ENTEANGE TO HOSPITAL

Plan Discussed By Waimairi Council

“We have the best hospital grounds in the Southern Hemisphere, and now a bridge is going to be ereqted to spoil ■ their appearance,” said Mr W. J.Walter at a meeting of the Waimairi County Council last evening, when . plans for the proposed new entrance to the Christchurch Hospital were discussed. “We should respect the mem-', ory of the pioneers w r ho gave us the land, and I do not like the way it is ' being used,” Mr Walter added.', ~ , The chairman (Mr W. P. Spencer) . said it was his Opinion that the scheme' •. ■ could not be opposed because the rate-. ’ ■ payers had elected the Hospital Board : - and therefore the board should the, permitted to get on with the work..He; added that the present to the' hospital was- out of date, congested, and dangerous. , ; : “It is -the, patients -and fa not the general.public who,should be considered,” said Mr I.' W, (Green. Mr E3 Stackhotfae:. If this is ...goidfffM to benefit the people' visiting the ••patfe'-- t J£ ents in the hospital, let them have it-vM; The present entrance is a .disgrace; - '•w “I agree, but I, don’t subscribe to , the view that no; other ehtrance’&aip ; the one planned is possible," said Mr ■' H. JCitsop. ;„•' ‘(How'dver, it' is not for bs to <pwp| our opinion 6f this plfHi;*:it. ha&ijMnc.-,, sent - to (us oqU of \courtesy;" saifl. Ipfc; •, Spencer. The council agreed to sup- : port any action taken by Mr Kiteon (representative on the Domains . Board). . A grant of £IOO was/made to the . Canterbury Museum funds. The council also supported the levying of .8 rate of l/40d in the £ on capital value for the maintenance and extension of the museum. . It was agreed to invest the sum of £3OOO in the war loan. The finance committee reported that £7OOO already had been invested,by the council in previous loans. „ T v. For the finance committee, Mr L. V.; Lawrence reported that the question of contributing to the Canterbury. : . Patriotic Fund had been discussed at some length, and that opinion was divided in connexion with the applies* ■ tion of the fund, while the committee : was fairly unanimous about the benefits provided by the Red Cross; therefore it was recommended that a contribution of £125 be made # to that body. The recommendation was adopted. Mr Lawrence added that he nad since been told that money from patriotic funds went to the Red C The report of the financial committee stated that the county clerk (Mr G S. Cowper) had written to me Christchurch Domains Board for an . adjustment of the Domains Board levy consequent on the exclusion of the Achilles block, Avon, from, the.Waimairi County and its inclusion, in the. city. The board had replied that the amount of the levy on each conmouting local body was fixed .by award, which contained no provision for adjustments. , “The position is that when an area is excluded from the county and included in the city, we still have to pay the levy ,on that area,” said Mr Cowper. "The only thing to do is to apply for a revision of the award.” It was decided to write to the Vo* partment of Internal Affairs asking* ■ whether any action could be taken TO rectify the matters