HANMER SPA.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 329, 16 October 1908, Page 10

HANMER SPA.

—« ; —— NOW FOR SICK PEOPLE ONLY.' Cabinet has. agreed to convert the Spa -Accommodation House, at Hanmer, into a sanatorium. At present thb Spa is mainly a Government boarding-house. .. Proprietors of other boarding-houses at. Hanmi>r ha,ve. frequently complained' of ■ tlii Government competition, and no doubt t-ue Spa will serve a much more valuable sanatorium, which was, it' appoars, the original purpose of the establishment. Speaking on -Iho matter to a Dominion reporter yesterday, Mr. T., E. Donne, general manager o' the Tourist- Department; explained that at the present lis • the Spa is a boarding-house open to tho gt-neral public. It is intended to convert ii into a sanatorium solely for treatment cf the -sick* Many years : age, when there were ho board-ing-houses- at Hanmer, the Government erected a brick, accommodation hmise. Hut since then a great number of private board-ing-houses have come in for, a.'share of the business, a,nd tlie Government realised that the Spa is in competition -with those houses and not ■ altogether full'dling its legitimate purpose. There was a gelid deal- of limitation about- the matter. ai;-.j '■ ! sc-sMon tho Prime i " .- -vS'iia would be converted into a. sijjir-'. ; -;.41icr-.' will be,a complete change in v. iiMfjemcnt; a doctor will bo placed in c)i: with a staff of nurses to. assist in r.ttemling to-,.the patients. Some slight alterations have .to.be mado in the buildings, .ii"! it is expected that in three or four weeks' time the new' institution will be ready for the treatment of invalids. '' ' '