POST-WAR VALUE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 63, 11 September 1943, Page 9

POST-WAR VALUE

U.S. HOSPITALS AND STORES P.A. AUCKLAND, September 10. Construction work for the United States Government in New Zealand has been fitted into a long-range plan and for the most part will have postwar- usefulness, said Mr. A G. Osborne, Under-Secretary to the Prime Minister, in an address last night when answering a question whether American hospitals built under reverse lend-lease would be destroyed after the war.

The whuJe building programme is not only for hospitals but also stores have been planned with an eye to the future," said Mr. Osborne. "It has long-range value." As far as possible the stores had been erected adjacent to railway sidings and would be utilised by the Railway Department. Their future utility had been carefully considered in every case.

Regarding hospitals, Mr. Osborne said that similar care had been taken. Where no additional hospital accommodation was needed- in a particular area for the community, these buildings had been erected after a survey of the educational requirements where they would be suitable lor use as intermediate schools. Hospitals and stores had been sited in certain localities so that their post-war conversion' to educational <use would be possible. Other buildings had been modelled so that they would be easily convertible into flats.