ACCOMMODATION FOR AGED

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28553, 5 April 1958, Page 4

ACCOMMODATION FOR AGED

Reports To Welfare Council ’ Accommodation for more than 6b old people would be provided at Windsor House, which was expected to* be completed about the middle of next year, Mr J. A. White told the quarterly meeting of the Christchurch Aged People’s Welfare Council. Tender's had closed and the council was in the final stages of negotiation with the contractors. It was expected that work would begin in a month’s time. The -lenders had been very satisfactory and were close to the price estimated by the Government architect. The women’s committee had purchased a piano for Langford House, said Mr W. H. Larcombe, the representative of the Pensioners’ Welfare Council. The accommodation was full and work had been done on the construction of a bowling green. The council thanked the women’s committee. ■> Accommodation^was full at both Fitzgerald House /and Churchill Courts, said Mr G. : M. Morgan, a representative of the Social Service Council of the Diocese of Christchurch. The Church of England was cotnbining with the Methodists to. build another home for the aged in Timaru. Plans for the proposed home in Ham road, which would provide accommodation for 18 to 20 elderly persons< in pleasant surrpundings, were well under way, said Mr D, R. Eliot, the representative of the Seventh-day Adventists. The board of the Archer Memorial Home for aged women had met officials of the Health Department in Wellington and the amended plans had been approved by the department, said Mr A. R. Jordan, the Baptist representative. As soon as advice was’ received that the finance had been authorised tenders would be called. The extensions to the home were estimated to cost £17.600. It was hoped that it would b? open by the end of the year. It would provide accommodation for 15 persons and a matron and a submatron. - . ; A hospital unit was to be built at the Woodchestef Home, said the Rev. T." G. Campbell, representative of the Presbyterian Social Service Association, The Theresa Green Home at Waltham, which had accommodation for about 20. had some accommodation available, said Mrs J. E. Mackay, a representative of the North Canterbury Hospital Board. The convalescent home which would provide accommodation for about 25 men would be completed early in May* said Miss M Corkill. of the Nurse Maude Association.