WELLINGTON HOSPITAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23029, 5 May 1938, Page 14

WELLINGTON HOSPITAL

INQUIRY BY COMMISSION BOARD'S £721,000 SCHEME [by telegbaph—PßESS association*] WELLINGTON, Wednesday The hearing of evidence was begun to-day by the Royal Commission appointed by the Government to investigate the existing accommodation at the Wellington Public Hospital, the board's building proposals and related subjects. The members of the commission are Mr. H. A. Young, S.M., chairman, Dr. D. S. Wylie and Dr. H. Hardwick-Smith. ' Evidence was given by the Director of the Division of Hospitals, Dr. R. A. Shore, the chairman of the Hospital Board, Mr. J. Glover, the superintendent of the hospital, Dr. A. R. Thome, and the board's architect, Mr. V. P. Haughton. Dr. Thome's evidence, which was most comprehensive, included a brief history of the hospital's development, an outline of what he described as obvious requirements, and a survey of the board's building proposals. The board's recent applications to the Local Government Loans Board involve loans totalling £721,000 and envisage a new main block of six stories, a new nurses' wing and a new boiler-house. The board's architect put in several reports prepared from time to time by Mr. A. G. Stephenson, of Stephenson and Meldrum, Sydney, the board's consultant architects, and stated his concurrence .with them*