CONSUMPTION SANATORIUM.

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 March 1911, Page 7

CONSUMPTION SANATORIUM.

A SOUTH CANTERBURY DIFFICULTY. [BY TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION^] TIMARU, Marti, 21. At the meeting of the local Hospital Board to-day some highly caustic tomfneht was made as to the maimer in which the Board was being treated by the Inspector-General of Hospitals over the regulations for the projected Consumption Sanatorium for Souvi C anterbury and Ashburton, f lic two Boards, under the provision of the Statute expressly provided, entered into an agreement to establish and maintain a sanatorium near Fairlie, and Dr. Valetine approved, of the proposal. Regulations were .drawn up, out the gazetting of them has been delayed by the Department. Meanwhile the new Act has been passed, ana flic Department now say that the Boards must proceed de novo. . The local Board lias to-day deemed not to do so, but if necessary, subject to the approval of the As). burton Board, to apply to the Supreme Court for a mandamus directing that the regulations be gazetted. _ A second subject on whicli snudar comments were made was the Inspect-or-General’s conditional annroval of the plans submitted to him for a new Old People’s Home here.