QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32880, 1 April 1972, Page 20

QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL

, Visit planned by Minister (N.Z. Press Association) i WELLINGTON, March 31. The Minister of Health (Mr Adams-Schneider) will visit Queen Mary Hospital, i Hanmer Springs, next Thurs- ! day. day. It will be the first visit • of a Minister of Health to the hospital since 1963. Last month the North Can- ’ terbury Hospital Board wrote i tb the Health Department, ■ offering to take over the hos- . pital, subjeet to a survey and I satisfactory finance. 1 The deputy directorgeneral of health (Dr I G. Balke-Palmer) sub- ; sequently informed the hospital board that the department was prepared to continue to provide finance at the present level if, after the survey, the board was satisfied that it could take over the administration of the hospital and provide adequate professional staff. ■ The executive staff of the 1 North Canterbury Hospital 1 Borad will visit the hospital ' on April 5. [■ -—

• Art bargain A painting bought over ‘ four years ago for 100,000 ' lire ($128), has been identified ' as being by the impressionist master, Vincent van Gogh, . and worth about 7000 million [ lire ($1.427m). The authen- . ticity of the painting, dated ■ 1883 and showing Van Gogh’s > brother, Theo, and friends, i was established after scien- > tific examination by experts attached to the Rome courts, > the Italian painter, Guido ; Montauti, reports.— Rome, ■ March 28.