SOLDIERS’ SANATORIA
- , DEFENCE MINISTER INTERVIEWED. fCTDEE USE or INSTITUTIONS. PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH, April 9. Sir James Allen, Minister for Defence, who has returned from a brief visit to Hammer, says that he found the Queen Mary hospital very greatly improved. Ho stated that the replacing of orderlies by sisters and V.A.D.’s had worked a very great improvement. “How long will the Hanmer hospital be kept going?” Sir James Allen was asked. “X don't think it can possibly ba done away with for at least two or three years,” he replied, “and after that I imagine the Public Health authorities should take it over as a neurasthenic hospital, for'civil patients. It is an exceedingly valuable place on account of the climate. I think Rotorua will he kept on by the civil people.” Sir James added. “Instead of building a civil sanatorium, the present buildings should serve for the next twenty years. We are diminishing the numbers at Rotorua, and w© shall concentrate on chronic cases. We have got a place provided by the Red Cross, at Dunedin, and negotiations are going on for a place at Auckland. provided by the Red Cross. Possibly some steps will have to be taken to provide for chronic cases at Canterbury and Wellington.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10560, 10 April 1920, Page 7
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