WELLINGTON'S NEEDS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1907, Page 6

WELLINGTON'S NEEDS.

♦ :—: — SITES FOR HOSPITALS AND SCHOOLS. "Wo think' it is a vory fair proposition," remarked the Hon. O. M. Luke (chairman of the Wellington Hospital Trustees) this morning, discussing the suggestion of the Minister of Health that, a portion of the trustees' Kovans-strpet property should bo exchanged for a section of the Mount View Reserve, required for an infectious diseases hospital. "We aro only^ asking back a little bit of what was originally our own.V he declared, a little later, during a meeting of the trustees. Ho held that ground used for the purposes of the general hos^ pital. would more directly contribute back to the good of "a community than its allocation for a mental hospital would. He mentioned that when money was needed for building purposes, half of it would come directly or indirectly from tho Government. He thought that as soon as the matter of a site for the proposed hospital was settled, the trustees should apply to the Government for a loan at the cheap rate of 3£ por cent, that had been promised for local bodies. , Mr. London stated that it was clearly evident that the trustees would coon have I to make additions to the main hospital. The demand upon the present accommodation was steadily growing. | The chairman : " "During the last six j months we wanted another ward." There had been a proposition for a long time to put up a ward for cancer cases, but then came the question of a site. It had been suggested that the site of the present fever ward should be available for a cancer ward. ' Mr London said he could not understand the attitude of some people on the question of hospitals. The trustees were a public department. It should not 1 be a- matter of bargaining with the Minister about a piece of land. This was required by the people for a necessary public i-ervice, and this fact ehould be recognised by Mr. Fo-Alds and everybody else. The trustees were performing a public duty, and should not be hampered in their task. ■ This sentiment was approved by several members of the board, who suid that Wellington was handicapped by the lack of sites for public purposes. They also briefly referred to the expeiience of educationists who had vainly endeavoured to get from the Government a sito for a technical school. Dealing, with this general question, the chairman said that the time was not far distant when the Mount View Hospital for Mental Diseases would have to go out of the city, and other members subj mitted that there was plenty of room at Porirua, for extensions to accommodate the menial sufferers of the distiict.

I Our local correspondent telegraphs rrom Cartprlon that Mr. E. L. Wakc-lin, a settlor in the Wairarapa for the paok 50 years, died this morning, ageil 77 years, A proposal has besn put forwaid amongst the rank and file oi the Wei lington Volunteer Rifle Battalion, and heartily supported by non-coms and men, that tho battalion as a whole give a complimentary dinner to Licut.-Colonel Collins in the Lambton-quay Drillshed on 2nd September next, to mark their appreciation of his past services to them, and their n\qiet at his resignation from the command. Mr. A, T. Bate, sharcbroker and land agent, notifies hie client* that he has removed into hit new offices in Nftthan'i •Building*. , >

The. comet mentioned ''n last night's cablegram from London was clearly visible to the naked eye at six this morning , • (writes Mr. Hudson), being about equal in brilliancy to a star of the, third .magnitude, but, owing to bright moonlight and approaching daylight; the tails could not be seen. The comet 'is easily found, and is now considerably above and to tho east of the Pleiades. The brignt star Aldebaran in Taurus forms with tho neighbouring stars a triangular figure closely resembling the well-known fifth proposition of Euclid, and the comet is situated near the apex of the triangle, slightly to. the west, right ascension about 4 hours 2 m'ihntes, north declination 15- degrees 27 minutes. By advertisement in this issue officers of the Wellington Garrison Officers' Club ai-3 notified of,, tho lecture to bo given at Government House, on invitation of Lord Plunket, to membera of the club by Lieut.-Colonel Bauchop. Trouble with teeth brought a dentist and his patient into tho Civil Court this morning, before Mr. Riddell, S.M. The Commercial Agency and Bridge and Frost, d-2nli3fc, f sued' Margaret "Plunkett foT £6 10s, being the balance owing for false tseth made for the defendant, who paid only £4 ; and had had extra 'work done. The balance was claimed by plaintiff. The defence was that the teeth had been unsatisfactory in the low-2r set, and that the original "eohtract had. been £5 for complete upper and lower sets, with £1 Is for extraction, total £6 Is, which had been paid in full, including £2 Is paid into court. IJis Worship gxive judgment for the plainti^ for £2 7s, with" costs £2. Mr. Yon Has st appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Jackson for tho defendant. The Floral and Fancy .'azaar, promoted, by the Missions to .Seamen, will be opened by Mrs. Williams to-morro,/ afternoon. Some special attraction have been arranged. "Much-needed rnin is falling," runs a Press Association telegram from Christchurch to-day. Messrs. Macdouald, Wilson and Co. insert particulars in tho auction columns of "it, ° household furniture, etc., at No. J 18, Campbell-terrace, Petone, on Friday 2nd August, at 1.30 o'clock p.m., an occount of Mrs. Hooper. Tho firm also insert particulars of a sale of household furjnture, etc., contents of a seven-roomed house, \n .their rooms, Bi, Lambton-quaj-to-morroiv at 1.30 o'clock p m "*■>»!