EMERGENCY HOSPITAL
USE OF MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE ACTIVE PUBLIC AGITATION (P.A.) BLENHEIM, Feb. 10. Public agitation against the taking of Marlborough College as an emergencx hospital at the direction of the Health Department assumed active form yesterday, when resolutions were carried calling on the authorities to restore educational facilities to normal. A conference between the Minister of Health, Mr A. H. Nordmeyer, and the Hospital and College Boards, which was to have been held yesterday, was postponed till the end of the week, but the College Board met to consider the situation. It was decided to advise th<a Health Department that its occupancy of the building could be approved only for three months or such shorter time as was required to erect temporary hospital accommodation. Last night a largely-attended meeting of parents of secondary and primary school pupils expressed the opinion that the taking of the college constituted a very serious setback to the education of the children of the district; that the time had not arrived for such action, and demanding the immediate return of the college for educational purposes on the understanding that it would be available in the event of an epidemic or other emergency.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24838, 11 February 1942, Page 8
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