WAIHI HOSPITAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4318, 16 September 1921, Page 2

WAIHI HOSPITAL.

THAMES BOARD OBJECTS.

TO “NURSING THE BABY.”

The unwelcome possibility of the Waihi Hospital District being junctioned with that of Thames is causing perturbation to members of the Thames Hospital Board. At the monthly meeting on Wednesday the chairman, Mr W. McCormick, said that the Hospital Commission had recommended 'that Thames Hpspital Board should-take over the Waihi Hospital. If such were done it might mean that the Waihi Hospital might be closed, or reduced to a very small cottage hospital- and casualty ward. The Board could not take over a bankrupt institution. and ’then saddle the general ratepayers with it. The Waihi people had taken it out of the Thames district, after much agitation. Messrs G. Death and Halliburton Jphnstpne endorsed the chairman’s views. Mr Death did not think the Board should take it over under any circumstances whatever, with “all that poor land around it..” On ,the motion of the chairman and Mr W. E. Hale it was decided to write to the Minister, stating that the Board viewed with alarm the recommendation that the hospital should be fois.ed upon Thames.