SUNNYSIDE CHAPEL

Press, Volume C, Issue 29534, 8 June 1961, Page 7

SUNNYSIDE CHAPEL

Total Cost £15,658 The chapel at Sunnyside Hospital, completed and furnished, cost £15,658, and £l6O surplus could be returned to the pool of the combined hospitals’ chapel appeal, said Mr C. M. Sloane at the final meeting of the Sunnyside Hospital Chapel Committee yesterday. He said that £15,438 had been allocated from the combined account but late contributions had amounted to £3BO, more than covering the total cost. A design of the feature window in the chapel would be prepared by Mr J. Oakley. Dr. J. D. Hunter said that the chapel was fulfilling a great need in the life of the mental hospital. As many as four services were held each Sunday. Even then accommodation was sometimes overtaxed. Tributes to the work done by Mr C. B. Wells, the architect, and Mr Sloane the secre-tary-treasurer, were paid at the meeting. Fragments of the foundation stone, which came from Marble Point, Antarctica, were presentc.fi to the Rev. G. D. Falloon, chairman of the Sunnyside committee, and Mr A. Prentice, organiser of the general appeal, by Dr. Hunter. Mr Prentice said in reply that this chapel was the first of its kind in New Zealand, but that there were movements in Auckland and Wellington, and on the West Coast to build chapels for mental hospitals. Similar movements were being started to raise funds to build chapels for general hospitals at Wanganui, Dunedin. Invercargill, New Plymouth, Whangarei and Masterton. he said. More than £20,000 had been raised in Invercargill to build four chapels there, said Mr Prentice.