MATERNITY HOME AND COTTAGE HOSPITAL.
The committee appointed by the Hastings borough Council to enquire into the scheme proposed by Cr. N. Beamish regarding the acquisition of a site for the erection of a Maternity Home and Cottage Hospital for Hastings, met yesterday. Mr. 11. lan Siinson (Mayor) was elected permanent chairman. Cr. Beamish wrote resigning his seat on the committee. —Accepted with regret. The Minister in charge of Hospitals (Hon. G. W. Bussell) wrote, stating that he was prepared to favourably consider the proposal to establish a Maternity Hospital in Hastings, and also a Cottage Hospital for emergency observation eases, under the control of the Napier Hospital Board who could appoint a local committee of .management. If £l(>,00(' were collected to purchase land and to erect buildings, the dilliculty would be largely solved. Il was deeiilcd to ask the Minister to come on to Hastings after his visit to Dannevirke, in order to meet the committee and discuss the position with them.
It was further resolved that a deputation wait on the Hospital Board at their next, meeting, to discuss the situation and to obtain their conbtMr AV. Hart U<! there -hould by no difficulty in getting the Board's consent, because, in 1916, lie proseded a resolution which was seconded bv Mr. Shrimpton and carried, that provision be made for a Maternity Ward to be erected at Hastings.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 216, 14 August 1918, Page 5
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