HOME FOR NURSES

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 75, 21 December 1929, Page 15

HOME FOR NURSES

4 ADDITIONS AT MASTERTON DEPARTMENT’S APPROVAL Masterton, December 20. Definite advice was received from the Minister of Health (Hon. A. J. Stallworthy) at to-day’s meeting of the Mairarupn Hospital Board that approval had been given for the addition of 23 rooms to the Nurses’ Home at the Masterton Hospital. “Well, we have got it at last,” commented the chairman. Mr. W. 1 isher, who reported that when the Minister s letter had been received he had instructed the architect to proceed with the plans and the calling of tenders for January 20 next. The central committee’s meeting had been postponed to that date, and the chairman asked the board to give the committee power to accept a tender. By such n course at least four weeks would be saved. Every contributing local body had been notified of the board’s financial proposals in ; connection, with the additions, and so far a reply had been received from one body, tbo Carterton Borough Council, expressing entire agreement with the scheme. Notices had been sent out on December 13, and if no objection were received within five weeks from that date, tenders would be opened and one accepted on January 20. In reply to a question from Mr. H. H. Daniell as to just what the financial proposals were, the chairman replied that £OOOO had to bo found. £3OOO of which would come from subsidy. The board’s quota would be raised by overdraft, and would be repaid at the rate of £l5OO per year, which would be contributed by the local bodies.

The central committee was given the necessary power to accept tenders.