CRIMEAN WAR HOSPITALS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 2, 2 December 1931, Page 10

CRIMEAN WAR HOSPITALS.

PORTIONS IN TARANAKI. Although it was 80 years old, the roof of the old mountain house was still in remarkably good condition, stated Mi* F. F. Anioo'ro at the meeting of the North Egmont Committee at New Plymouth. It required only a coating of tar and it would last for a great many years more. Mr T. C. List remarked that during his recent visit to England he had been the guest of the head of an iron and steel works at Middlesbrough. They were driving along a country road in North Yorkshire when the peculiar corrugation of the iron on a building caught Mr List’s eye and seemed familiar. He remarked on it to his host, who said the iron had been made by his father’s men working night and day in response to the appeal of Florence Nightingale for the provision of more hospitals in the time of the Crimean War. The men had hammered out the iron in laminations, no machinery being used in the process. Some of the iron, said Mr List’s host, had subsequently gone to Australia and New Zealand. Some of it had come to New Plymouth, Mr List told him, and it has been on the rooif of the old military quarters on Mnrsland Hill and later taken up to the mountain and was now in use as the roof of the old hostel at North Egmont. The iron had the same wide corrugation, and the laminations could be seen with a microscope.