NEW HOSPITAL BLOCK

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19623, 5 May 1938, Page 15

NEW HOSPITAL BLOCK

WELLINGTON PROJECT EVIDENCE AT INQUIRY (Pt»r Truss Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The hearing of evidence was begun yesterday 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. Members of the commission are, Mr. IT. A. Young. S.M., chairman, Dr. D. S. Wylie and Dr. 11. HardwickSmith. 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. Thorne 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 lie described as obvious requirements, and a survey of the board's building proposals. The Hospital Board's recent several applications to the Local Government Loans Board involve loans totalling £721,000, and envisage a new main block of six storeys, a new nurses' wing and a new boiler-house. The board's architect, Mr. Haughton, put in several reports prepared from time to time by Messrs. A. G. Stephenson and Mcldruin, Sydney, the board's consultant architects, and stated his concurrence with them. The chairman stated that counsel, for various reasons, were not able to cross-examine or re-examine the wit- ' nesses that clay. In every case cross- . examination and re-examination would be deferred till Monday.