BUILDING AND CONTENTS INSURED.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14142, 19 July 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

BUILDING AND CONTENTS INSURED.

accommodation foe. the '■:..7", - inmates: ■. •" .' ■ •'.■ ■ ■ "•."■"■• ■'. :\'. ~ '■: l ■..■'.July,-.'!.. remains of the Alexandria fflmne; w'hich'was destroyed by lire on rhursday night, except the standing ?hininoys; -• • ■ ■ The building, was uisuip'l Lv £-1000 i\lndi \>« divided amongst sf, ei.il in•.liranro con nanies as follow 'Noiwich tnion, €2000, Royal, £1000. QueensL»d CIOOO. The conLertb \uro iii--inpd fm -€600 (£3OO m t'ro Ko\al and i/300 in thp Guardian fire oiflre^ > In ioa,i.d to the O(.ooj)iir>odrition v Oi tho lr'uoto' \^ho weie place-] tompoiaril\ a* Hip Goucial Hoiintil, Aforital and ith «PiOiboJiS JMessrs H Bai^Oi^ riuuman) and W. Lock iiicnK»i>N of the Poaid. and Mi & Ulomfiold ''iloik^ iT>otoieil io Biohmond \pstoui/T< li^o'nuig, and inspected the Ti\o Imildin"*: iccentl^ oiec'od '■>% the Oovemineut Utv n?o a^ ]Io»nos foi T>cfecii\es Those ai'"> at p'osont "nno'cupied. and is ono uould piov;do •unple atcoTPmodatiort for the oi old people at y>ipsr»nt in cliaiao of tin- Hospital "iid (JhantaLlp Aid Boaul, 'nr tiinnnt telooiani was despatclied to Wellington Tsl-inp, peimission to use nip of tho i/aildmas until sufh trne as primauent accommodation i& Djovided^ ioj tho inmates of the Alexandra .Home The Hospital and CWitable Aid Board had o'llpiecentlv bXjen<-,£150 in 7-amtinjfr and icnor'ations at the Alessindia flome,. which was ln<ilb seven ■veais ago by Mi S M. Galbraith at a cost of £5000 ' The structure was „in S\o"od.' and it i<? 'to be hoped- that the hoard when dealing with the erection -*' '''-*, ' "" ' -

v of <anothei' Home will insist upon its, bging iKuilt in brick or ferro-conca etc. Towiards -the erection of tho new ibuilding tho boai-d will have the insurances totaling -£4000, a bequest of the: late.Mi- J." K. Harris < of £1000,' which was left for the purpose of providing accommodation for aged and needy people, and the balanco of asmall bequest left by tho late Mrs G. Thompson, amounting to about £70. July, 3. Mr S. Blomfield, secretary .of the Nelson Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, received word on Saturday from! the Health Department that the Education Depaxtment was prepared to grant the use of a school building at Richmond for the housing of the inmates of the Alexandra Home for a period not exceeding six months.