NURSES’ HOME

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 94, 21 March 1931, Page 8

NURSES’ HOME

new wing finished. REAPY FOR OCCUPATION, Built at a cost of £6BOO, the additions to the Nurses Home at the 1 almerston North .Hospital are now complete, and comprise an entirely now Erick wing, faced in white, on the eastern end of the existing home with a front elevation to the Hospital itsen. The additions, of handsome design, aie ready for occupation, and steps are being taken to make use of th§m irumedfatelv. The ground surrounding t ie new wing is being laid out m artistic flower beds. , - ■ . The kitchen of the home has been converted into a servery, and a new kitchen, well equipped, has been built. It has all the latest appliances, including two stoves capable of cooking sixty meals each, a steam pressure cooker, and a steam jacketed four gallon pan for soup. There are over ninety nurses, and, with the domestic staff, the kitchen has to provide for over one hundred. , . Included in the kitchen accessories are a new vegetable room and preparation sink, and milk and moat cupboards. The lower bathroom floor _ is rubber tiled. Carpets are now being laid throughout the building. The old dining-room is being enlarged by the removal of a folding partition separating it from what- was formerly the ■sitting room. There is a steam heating system throughout. - , Fourteen bedrooms and two largo sitting rooms are the principal features of the ground floor, and there are fourteen bedrooms upstairs. Theie is a long pillared balcony extending along the The new wing has a reinforced concrete floor and is' supported by heavy brick piers. The varandah is on solid columns, and the top floor of the substantially erected building is strongly reinforced. The tops, of all the walls aie tied and banded together. All the timbers used in the building, except the sashes are New Zealand heart woods. •• ' _ ' ' Good progress is being made with the erection of the new operating theatre block attached to the main hospital building.