HEATING AT BURWOOD

Press, Volume C, Issue 29702, 21 December 1961, Page 7

HEATING AT BURWOOD

“Elderly Will Be Cold” “A lot at elderly people at Burwood Hospital will be cold this winter, as they were last winter, unless steam from the new boilers is available.” said Mr J. B Hay at a meeting of the North Canterbury Hospital Board yesterday. He was criticising delay in the construction of the new boiler-house at the hospital “It seems to be assumed by some folk that the boilerhouse is not an urgency until the new surgical block is completed, but the steam ts very badly needed for existing buildings.” he said. Mr E. P. Shier said the early completion of the boiler-house was “an absolute must ” No further delay was tolerable, he said. Mr L A. Bennett, chairman of the works committee said that a good deal of the delay was caused by uncertainties over coal-handling This matter had been the subject of numerous memoranda “sent backwards and forwards between Christchurch and Wellington.” There was no excuse for further delay, but it was now quite hopeless to expect the boiler-house to be completed for next winter Other arrangements would be made if necessary to provide for the comfort of the patients. The chairman (Dr L. C. L Averill) said he hoped Messrs Shier and Hay would continue to “blow off steam about the boilers.” “You keep us up to the mark,” he said.