NURSES’ HOME SITE NOW TRANSFERRED

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17905, 22 July 1926, Page 7

NURSES’ HOME SITE NOW TRANSFERRED

ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY GIVES APPROVAL. Formal approval of the proposed legislation validating the transfer of the society’s property in Flagley Park to the North Canterbury Hospital Board, as a site for a nurses’ home, was given at last night’s meeting of the council of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society. Messrs Lane, Neave and Wanklyn, solicitors to the Hospital Board, forwarded copies of clauses relating to the nurses’ home site, for insertion in the Reserves and Other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act of this session. The clauses had been approved by the Domains Board and the Hospital Board and it was asked that the society approve of them also. Clause 1 (e) which reads: —“The payment of the sum of £l5O by the Domains Board to the Hospital Board.” was struck out. This is the clause dealing with the payment for the caretaker’s cottage in the Acclimatisation Society's grounds, and which was objected to by the Hospital Board. One of the clauses provides that “the Hospital Board shall not at any time after the coming into force of this Act seek to acquire from his Majesty the King any further portion of the reserve known as Hagley Park for any purpose whatsoever connected with the Hospital Board.” It is further provided that in the event of any of the land vested in* the Hospital Board by the Act not being at any time in the future required by the Hospital Board for the purpose of a nurses’ home, and ceasing to be used as such, such areas together with all buildings and improvements should revert to the Crown. On the motion of Mr S. F. Barnett, the following resolution was carried, subject to the clauses being perused by the society’s solicitors:—“ That the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society do hereby approve of and consent, so far as its interests are concerned, to the clauses hereto annexed, being inserted in the annual Reserves and Other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act of this session of Parlia?ient.”