COUNTRY HOSPITALS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17113, 19 March 1919, Page 9

COUNTRY HOSPITALS.

» ■ FRANKLIN COUNTY CLAIMS. WAIUKU AND PUKEKOHE. The need for the establishment of a ' hospital or hospitals in the Franklin , county was emphasised by deputations ■jo! representative settlers from Waiuku | and Pukekoho, which waited on the Auck- ' j land Hospital Board last evening. , I Mr. C. Motion, chairman of the Frank- ! lin County Council, said there were two i, deputations, one . requesting the erection of a cottage hospital at Waiuku, and the i other the establishment of a hospital at Pukekohe. He had been appointed on .both, but if the board would consider only the establishment of one hospital in the district he would support the request of the Waiuku deputation. A hospital was urgently required in the district, many portions of which were comparatively difficult! Of access. The Waiuku people desired to erect a hospital as a ■ permanent war memorial. They were willing to provide a site and to find the j money for the erection of ft suitable building, providing the board would take ] , it over. The epidemic bad demonstrated > ! the necessity for increased hospital facili-, ' ties in the country districts, and possibly • the board might consider the matter of - establishing more than one hospital in . the Franklin County. I Other speakers urged the claims of Pukekohe for a hospital, without prejudice to the Application from Waiuku. I The proposal from the Pukekohe residents • was on similar lines to that made by the f j Waiuku deputation. > Replying to both deputations, the chair- > man, Mr. W. Wallace, said he did not • think the erection of more than one hos--5 pital for Franklin County would be con- ! sidered by the board. He realised the diffi- » culty of coming to a decision regarding a 1 site, as apparently any site chosen would I not suit both districts. The board would ' be influenced by the financial aspect of - the question, and he undertook that careful I I consideration would be riven to the repre- ■ sentations of t-ria deputations. 6 After the deputation had withdrawn, it ! was decided that members of the board r should visit the FVankl'n County and ' subsequently consider the representations o | of the deputations at a special meeting. .1 ——