Drug-aid centre in Cashmere?

Press, 11 June 1979, Page 7

Drug-aid centre in Cashmere?

A d r u g-rehabilitation, centre for about 12 young! persons may open soon at a' property owned by the] North Canterbury Hospital | Board in Cashmere. The Hiroa Trust, an inter-] church group, want to lease the former Huntsbury Children’s Home from the board to use as a rehabilitation centre. A meeting of residents of the Huntsbury area has agreed to allow the centre to go ahead on a trial basis. The Hospital Board will be] asked to approve a lease at [ the next meeting of its in-] stitutions committee. The property, which until ) recently was known as Little, Acres, will be vacated tomorrow by the present lessees, the Society for the Intellectually Handicapped. The property is attached to The Coronation Hospital, whose medical superintendent (Dr T. Enticott) said last evening tha f the proposed centre would cater for persons who had been associated with drugs and whom the trust was helping to l rehabilitate.

The acting chairman of the Hospital Board's institutions committee (Mrs M. H. Ferner) has said it was hoped that residents of the Cashmere area would become as involved I with the centre’s work as] peonle had in Herne Ray.] Auckland wrhere there was a similar centre. I

ii If it was agreed to lease ; the property to the trust it i! would be for a trial period i j only. This was normal I procedure when Hospital | Board properties were ■leased.