WESTPORT

Greymouth Evening Star, 31 May 1946, Page 8

WESTPORT

RADIO TELEPHONE FOR SIGNAL STATION

At the monthly meeting ' of the Westport Harbour Board a letter was received from the Secretary for Marine, advising that Cabinet’s approval had been obtained for the expenditure of .£3OOO on establishment of a wireless telephone installation at the signal station for use. with shipping. The new installation will prove invaluable as messages will come direct to the port from ships, instead of by .wireless to Wellington, then by telephone or telegraph to Westport. RATEPAYERS’ PROTEST Complaints at no details of the proposals of the Westport Borough Council to raise loans of £15,000 each for improvements to the town gas and water supply being given in open meeting's were made by members of the Ratepayers’ Association at the monthly meeting. Motions were carried protesting against the raising of loans until such time as the council can show the various costs to cover the necessary repairs to the' gas and water works. WESTLAND HOSPITAL PRAISED

The Westland Hospital was one of the best examples of a really good small hospital, said the medical superintendent of the Buller Hospital, in his monthly report to the board. He had been, particularly impressed by the entrance and administration block, the theatre blocky the children’s ward, and adequate number of side rooms to each ward, the patients’ lavatory and bathroom facilities," the staff quarters, the Nurses’ Home and the general care of the grounds and facilities for recreation of the nurses.

He' suggested that the Buller Hospital could do no better than model iaself along those lines, and put forward a ten year policy for the expansion and improvement of the hospital. He particularly stressed the question, of a new theatre block, which h'e said was a really urgent matter. Instead of spending money on alterations to the present theatre block, he suggested that it would be cheaper and more efficient to build a new theatre block.