NEW CASHMERE HOSPITAL

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27470, 2 October 1954, Page 3

NEW CASHMERE HOSPITAL

CONTRACTORS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE COMPLETION IN 1957 EXPECTED Contractors working on the new Cashmere Hospital expect the interior of all the blocks to be near completion within 12 months. “At our present rate of progress we will certainly nnisn the contract within the x specified time, which is five years,” said Mr W. A. Luney, a director of Charles S. Luney, Ltd., the company building the hospital. “We believe we will have the job finished before the middle of 9 The hospital is a £ 1,000,000 contract, and is the biggest construction work proceeding in New Zealand today, with the exception of hydro-electric works. One hundred men are at work on the building all the time. Material t j go into the present contract includes 700,000 bricks, 800 tons of steel, and 12,000 yards of concrete. About 20.000 yards of material was removed from the site before building commenced, to form a basement. Reporting on progress, Mr Luney said that in A block —the 100 ft high, seven floor administrative blockstructural work had been completed, and plastering was under way. The B block, of five floors, was started about six months ago. Concrete work there will be completed about Christmas. . , X J One wing of C block is completed, and workmen are finishing the fifth floor of the other wing. A feature of this block will be a curved steelframed window framing the main stairway of the hospital. Work is progressing in the other three blocks, D, E, and F. The present contract provided for a first stage of construction which would make 240 beds available, said Mr Luney. On the plans for stage 2 were certain special departments, and, in another stage, the provision of a nurses’ home.