CRESSY HOUSE

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32320, 11 June 1970, Page 18

CRESSY HOUSE

First Resident Next Week The Cressy House residential home for the aged was expected to receive its first resident next week, the chairman of the Cressy House Trust Board (Mr F. I. Sutton) said yesterday. Cressy House was formerly the Lyttelton maternity hospital. When the hospital closet' the Lyttelton Rotary Club decided to retain the asset for the Lyttelton district and the North Canterbury Hospital Board agreed to sell lhe building to the club for conversion to a home fot the aged. The Nurse Maud Association. Red Cross Association, churches, the Lyttelton Round Table and Lyttelton Borough Council agreed to be represented on the Cressy House Trust Board, together with the nominee of the Ministei of Health and two nominees of the Lyttelton Rotary Club. So that Cressy House could be opened debt free the Lyttelton Rotary Club undertook to raise funds to furnish it to a high standard. Through the generosity of commercial and private interests sufficient money for this purpose has been handed to the trust board. A matron has already been {appointed. She is Miss Lillian Stowell, a former matron lof the Nelson Hospital. Mr Sutton said yesterday afternoon that Cressy House (would be open for public inspection on the afternoons of June 20 and June 21 An official opening would probably be held next month.