LAYING OF FOUNDATION STONE, GREYMOUTH HOSPITAL
Back Row (left to right). Messrs J. L. Doogan, H. Bignell, W. Yarrall, J. Gieseking, E. I. Lord, , builder, J. Petrie. Middle Row: R. Nancarrow, Hon. R. J. Seddon, D. C. L. Morice, A. Mathieson, F. Campbell, D. Sheedy. Front Row: M. J. Phillips, Dr. C. Morice, junr., J. McCarthy. The Greymouth Hospital originally stood on the sitje now occupied by the Post Office, but it was removed in 1875 to the present site of three acres, and has gradually- increased in size with the passing of the years and the growth of the town and district. The Jubilee wing was erected with funds raised at a carnival during Queen Victoria’s Jubilee year, while another wing was erected in 1905, at a cost of £3,500. During recent years those fine buildings, the Old People’s; Home and the Nurses’ Home, have been constructed.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 February 1928, Page 28 (Supplement)
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