WELLINGTON FEVER HOSPITAL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 188, 4 May 1908, Page 8

WELLINGTON FEVER HOSPITAL.

■ ■ — — s > ■ MOUNT VIEW SITE. CABINET COMES TO A DECISION. ■ EXCHANGE OFFERED. After much mental exercise and earnest ?ndeavour, and after delays that liavo not ■ been of thoir. own socking, the Wellington : Hospital Trustees .seem to be in. a fair way to at last sccuro a site for thoir much-needed fqver hospital. • ■ •; Some little timo ago the Trustees approached tho Government with a view, to .ob- . . taining a portion of the near end of tho . ' Mount Viow grounds. There were various ; ' reasons'why this locality would bo suitable, tho chief being;it3 .proximity to the Welling- ' ton which would moan a saving in administration. :: The'. .Trustees asked, for <a ;Pi: free-grant,..of fivo: acres, :<\but, failing that, , offered to oxchango'ccrtam of . their pro-... Serty; .fronting '.the ' Hospital buildings .in 1 .cvans Street,' which area would bo valuablo as,.building sections. ' On■ Saturday night Cabinet .'dccidcd to ~, /. -agree to tlio exchanfjo' of 1 ' from l five', to ten • acres of tho Mount View Asylum-hind. Tho' Chairman of tho Hospital Board of Trustees (tho Hon.; C. M. Luke)'had not , boon officially apprised:of Cabinet's decision last evening, and was unable to express any < opinion "as to the: Board's action.-/ : It; had ■, ' ; been hoped,' however; that a free grant of , l.ho land would be obtained. Judging from •, ./ . recent remarks by the - Trustees, everything will bo dono to hasten tho crcctioir of'.tho , . , ..'levir hospital,' the necessity for which has. . v ;. alrcridy -'several-times Been urged, and - the / -/'.coavcnienco-'.'oi which will bo great. : ~.