CITIZENS' HOSPITAL POLICY
■ /Criticism of the Wellington Hospital Board's building proposals was voiced by Mr. .1. D. Sievwrighl, a Citizens’ Committee candidate for the hospital board, at Kilbirnie last night. The board's scheme, said the candidate, was to provide 300 more beds at a cost of from £750,000 to £1,000.000. or £2500 a bed; the Citizens’ ticket proposal was to build an auxiliary hospital in the Hutt Valley to provide 250 beds at a cost of £250,000, or £lOOO a bed. Common sense, as well ns highest medical opinion, he claimed, justified the ( itizens’ ticket being endorsed by the electors to-morrow.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 190, 10 May 1938, Page 17
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