AVONDALE HOSPITAL
TO BE ABANDONED DESIRABLE RESIDENTIAL SITES. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND,, May 29. Sir Maui Pomare, in a speech at the opening of the new Wallace Ward at the Auckland Hospital, said he had come to the conclusion that the whole of the mental hospital and grounds of Avondale must be completely abandoned within the next, ten years.' The estate, about two hundred acres, can then be opened as a highly desirable residential area, and provide natural expansion to an important suburb of Auckland. There would he no more permanent buildings there, except suitable additions to meet the require ments of incipient, border-line, or otherwise curable and sensitive patients. The premises would he vacated gradually as the new institution' progresses.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12151, 30 May 1925, Page 4
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121AVONDALE HOSPITAL New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12151, 30 May 1925, Page 4
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