PRESBYTERIAN HOMES

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32351, 17 July 1970, Page 6

PRESBYTERIAN HOMES

More Planned By Association The Christchurch Presby. terian Social Service Association plans to complete a 30bed home and 25-bed hospital next year at Windermere i Road, Papanui. said the superintendent (the Rev. G. F. ■McKenzie) on Tuesday. Also next year, in conjunction with Anglican, Methodist, and Roman Catholic social services—it will build a 30-bed home in Dixon Street, Greymouth. The association had also purchased a six-acre block of land in the Hoon Hay area for future development of a further establishment for the aged. Mr McKenzie said. Nelson And Blenheim In 1972, the association, in .co-operation with the Methodist Social Service, plans to extend its Green Gables Home at Nelson by 20 beds, and by a 15-bed hospital. The Isobel Bursill Home at Blenheim will also be extended by an additional 12 beds, said Mr McKenzie.

Throughout New Zealand, Presbyterian Social Service Associations play a major part in the care of the aged. They maintain 33 homes and hospitals catering for 1340 persons, at a cost of more than $1 million a year. In addition, the associations care for more than 200 children in their children’s homes, help more than 200 unmarried mothers each year, run 20 hostels for the young, provide family and personal counselling and relief services, and maintain chaplains in hospitals and prisons at a further cost of about $260,000 a year, said Mr McKenzie.