NEW HOSPITAL AT CASHMERE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 18 April 1939, Page 9

NEW HOSPITAL AT CASHMERE

WINNING DESIGN ANNOUNCED AUCKLAND FIRM SUCCESSFUL i United PrHHf. Association! CHRISTCHURCH. 16th April. A competition held to decide which architect should prepare the plans for the new subsidiary hospital at Cashmere was yesterday, the jury announcing that the winning design had been submitted by Messrs Gummer and Ford, of Auckland. The second choice was a design by Messrs Massey. Morgan and Bateson, Auckland, and a Christchurch firm, Messrs Helmore, Cotterill, and Harman, was third. For more than two weeks the jury (Sir Hugh Acland. Mr P .Rule, architect. Timaru, and Mr L. B. Evans, chairman of the North Canterbury Hospital Board), had given the designs careful consideration. In a brief statement Mr Evans said that the winning design would not necessarily be adopted as it stood. The competitors had agreed to make any alterations desired by the board. Mr Evans said that the jury’s report would be submitted to a meeting of the board on Wednesday week. Full details would then be available. The undertaking for which Messrs Gummer and Ford are now architects is a subsidiary hospital to be built on 17 acres of land recently acquired by the board at the foot of the Cashmere Hills. The new hospital is to relieve the pressure on the present public hospital. A start with the erection of the new building will be made as soon as possible. When the board decided on the establishment of the subsidiary block the figure of £200,000 was mentioned .and this is an indication of what the contract price might be.