NAPIER’S NEW HOSPITALS
TO BE BUILT OF WOOD NEW SCHOOLS AS OBJECT LESSONS At a meeting of the Hawkes Bay Hospital Board on Thursday last, when the question of rebuilding* the ' hospitals which were destroyed by tlje recent earthquake was under discussion, very complimentary references were made to the new wooden schools which have been built there to replace the brick ones. They were described as “wonderful buildings,” and one speaker said that the schools recentlv erected in Napier and Hastings had shown that there was the material in Now Zealand to put up perfectly good buildings and that if the Hospital Board adopted a similar style to that used in the schools they would have the kind of thing that they wanted. If the wards were built far enough apart a 'great deal of fire danger would be eliminated. It. was unanimously resolved to rebuild the hospitals in one storey and of New Zealand timber. It is interesting to noto that the schools which came in for so much praise were built, from the Nelson Central school plan.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 4 August 1931, Page 4
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