ALEXANDRA HOME

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 125, 22 November 1935, Page 17

ALEXANDRA HOME

SPLENDID NEW QUARTERS

A large number of visitors inspected the new quarters at the Alexandra Home on Wednesday afternoon, when the home was thrown open for inspection. Mrs. T. E. Corkill, president of the executive, of the home, and the matron, Miss Morgan, received the guests in the entrance hall, and parties of visitors were conducted over the home by the nurses. Admiration was expressed of the attractive furnishings and the excellent equipment in the nurses' rooms and wards.

A large airy new ward in the hospital quarters looked very attractive with curtains and screen of pink sprigged fruit design. All the cooking for the patients and staff will be done in a new and very modern kitchen, which has a large electric stove and refrigerator. The meals will be sent upstairs to the staff by a lift which adjoins the kitchen. Rows of trays, ready and attractively set for the next meal, were in the servery next to the kitchen.

Special interest was taken in the nursery, a large room on the sunny side with windows overlooking a court-

S. P. Andrew Photo,

yard. The furnishings and curtains were of baby blue material sprigged with darker blue and white flowers. Each little crib had an initialled quilt and each boy baby had a blue bow tied to the head of his crib and the girls had pink bows.

The Girls' Home, which is situated in the original building, has its own kitchen and a sitting-room, which is furnished in warm autumn shades and has doors opening on to the courtyard.

The twelve nurses, who are training at the hospital, have their own bedrooms. Each one is nicely furnished and has a bedspread of.flowered linen to match the wallpaper, and there are rugs.on the polished floors. All the bathrooms have green tiling, green baths, and green mats. The sisters' sitting-room is also furnished most attractively, and the matron has a little "flat" consisting of bedroom, bathroom, | and kitchenette, and a sitting-room, i which adjoins the nurses' quarters.

The folding doors between the dining-room and the lecture-room were thrown open and the committee served a delightful tea to the visitors.

Dr. T. F. Corkill spoke about the work of the home, which, he said, was not often brought before the public, but this occasion when the long-waited for additions to the building had been completed, was a good time for such a purpose. He gave a brief history of the home and told how the hospital side of the work had been commenced. Both were worked quite independently and yet were united. Wellington was j favoured with many examples of Chrisitian service, but there were few more I worthy of help than the Alexandra | Home. For the hospital they did not j ask help as it supported itself, but gifts for the carrying on of the Girls' Home would always be gratefully received. He concluded by congratulating the committee and expressing the hope that the work would prosper.