HOSPITAL BUILDING PLANS

Hutt News, Volume 11, Issue 41, 23 March 1938, Page 5

HOSPITAL BUILDING PLANS

NOTICE OF MOTION GIVEN

When the Wellington Hospital Board next meets, the following notice of motion, proposed by Mr F. Castle, will be considered: — "That a special committeee, consisting of all members of the board, be appointed to consider the following matters and report to the board within 21 days after date of meeting: "Whether or not the board's present building plans and proposals should be abandoned and somQ or all of the following, proposals be adapted:— *' That immediate ■ instructions be given to the board's architects to piepare plans and specifications foi (a) a general hospital at Lower Hutt to accommodate 200 patients beds for children and adults, and also a nurses' home of suitable size; and (b) a maternity hospital to supply the needs of the Hutt Valley. "That the present main hospital ■buildings, including Wards'l to VII, be maintained and used for patients iffi at least 15 years and that additions and renovations to this block be made in* accordance with- this condition. "T.ha.i-a ( multi-storied, block of 150 to 200 -'emsos be erected on' the lan;d' f |^'"iccppi e d by Seddon Shelters and'-tte^l^i' Shed.' aucowmocl " tiou for extensions' of ,steam and be limited to supply a beds instead of 1000 now proposed."