KAIPARA HOSPITAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22468, 11 July 1936, Page 15

KAIPARA HOSPITAL

TE KOPURU BUILDING TEMPORARY ADDITIONS OPTION ON DARGAVILLE SITE [by telegraph—OWN con RESPONDENT] WARGAVILLE, Friday A decision to prepare plans for a minimum of additions at the Northern Wairoa Hospital, at To Kopuru, the expenditure if possible not to exceed £IOOO, was made by the Kaipara Hospital Board to-day. The board also adopted the recommendations passed by the conference of contributing local bodies on July 3. The resolution that the board be requested to provide additional accommodation to meet urgent needs at Te Kopuru at a minimum of cost was adopted without discussion. Discussing the second recommendation, that the board be requested to take all necessary steps to build a new block of hospital buildings on an approved site in Dargaville. the buildings to be commenced within the next two years, Mr. W. Collins said he could not see how the position could bo avoided, although two years was sudden. There were more than two years of life in tho present buildings at To Kopuru, but there was not sufficient accommodation for that time. Mr. W. A. Preston: I am afraid that d we do not move in this direction the department will not agree to the temporary accommodation at Te Kopuru. Mr. E. T. Birtless: This has to come. We have to have central accommodation at Dargaville. The recommendation was adopted. The board decided to forward to the Health Department the resolution of the conference urging the department to further the carrying out of the recommendations and decided to ask the Minister of Health to meet the board and representatives of contributing local bodies in conference to discuss hospital matters. Mr. 11. Wordsworth: The previous resolution looks as if we were ready to carry on with the building programme at Dargaville, but now we are sending resolutions which show that we are not prepared to carry on with that. The board's architect, Mr. A. P. Morgan, asked if, in the event of the Health Department consenting to the temporary accommodation, six additional beds would be sufficient for the next two years. Hie medical superintendent. Dr. J. A. Marshall, said they might be sufficient. A motion that plans be prepared for a minimum of additions Jit Te Kopuru, the expenditure if possible not to exceed £IOOO, was carried. 'Hie board alsi> instructed its secretary to secure an option over a site in Dargaville.