MENTAL HOSPITAL
TO RELIEVE CONGESTION BIG BUILDING PROGRAMME UNDER WAY. STATEMENT BY MINISTER. “We have a big building programme ahead,” stated Sir Maui Pomare (Minister in Charge of the Mental Hospitals Department) on Saturday, “with a view of relieving the congestion, in certain of title mental hospitals in the Dominion.” New buildings, he said, had been added to the Avondale Mental Hospital, Auckland, and additions had also been carried out at Sunnyside ; while it was intended to relieve the congestion at some of the institutions by transferring certain classes of oases to the new hospital at Tokaanu, in the middle of the North Island, when it was completed. The result would be that existing mental hospitals would not have to he enlarged unduly. More accommodation is also to he provided at the Nelson institution, wnere juvenile patients are sent. Cabinet, added the Minister, had approved of the expenditure of over £40,000 in carrying out extensions at Hanjner for the treatment of neurathenic and nervous cases. It was hoped to commence very shortly the work authorised at Hanmer.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11786, 24 March 1924, Page 7
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177MENTAL HOSPITAL New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11786, 24 March 1924, Page 7
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