“BEAUTIFULLY SITED”
The Princess Margaret Hospital, so beautifully sited in one of the smallest valleys of the Port Hills, was the fourth health institution to be built in the area, said Cr. J. C. Holliss, of the Heathcote County Council, at the official opening. '
Deputising for the county chairman (Mr F. W. Freeman), who was unable to attend because of illness. Cr. Holliss said: “The siting of these institutions is surely a complement to the warmth and to the health restoring properties of this sunsaturated suburb of metropolitan Christchurch.’’
He said it was singularly appropriate that the name of Viscount Cobham should appear on the plaque in the entrance hall. “For directly across the river is the beginning of a 700-acre block ot land, one of the first Crown grants in the province, with which the. family name of Lyttelton is associated,
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28988, 1 September 1959, Page 8
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