PROPOSED SANATORIUM
HILLCREST PROPERTY APPLICATION TO LOANS BOARD A decision to apply to the Local Government Loans Board and the Minister of Health for sanction to the borrowing of £10,500 for the purchase of land at Hillcrest for a tuberculosis sanatorium and subsidiary hospitals was made at a meeting of the Waikato Hospital Board on Monday. The chairman, Mr J. Price, said that several local authorities to whom the board had written did not say whether they agreed to the raising of the loan for the purchase of the property. They did not actually answer the question put to them. Several said that they were opposed to further building until reduction in hospital costs. In answer to Mr J. Banks, who said that even if experts said the Hillcrest site was suitable for a tuberculosis sanatorium he would still oppose its erection there, Mr Price said that in the opinion of five doctors who inspected the districts from Rotorua to Bombay it was the best site that could be procured. A letter from the Director-General of Health forward ministerial approval to the purchase of the property at Hillcrest. The estimates for 1946-47 were confirmed by the board.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 72, Issue 6241, 12 June 1946, Page 5
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