WANGANUI JUBILEE HOME
ESTIMATED COST OF NEW BUILDING BOARD APPROVES PLANS Thp Wanganui Hospital Boar.l's new building programme at the Jubilee Home. Aramoho, is expected to cost about £25.000. according to an estimate given bx the architect, Mr. C. Ne.vtnn Hood, nt the monthly meeting yesterday afternon. This amount, said Mr Hood, did not Include furnishing.' The chairman. Mr. W. E. Brod o’: (Maxwell): That works out at a cost of about £5OO a bed. Mr. Hood said that in oliaborat on with the Department of Health, everx effort was being made to keep th? cost down to a minimum. It was h<» el to have Ihe work completed in n nr mon I Its. A building with accommodation ! r 60 beds and constructed on permanent lines was approved hv the hoard at November monthly meeting, when A’ Hood was instructed to prepare ] ”■ *= for the building and the reorganisation of existing structures The wings of the new building ar* to be d \ : ded into cubicles, each : - commodating small num ■< rs of inmates ranging from two to eight It is honed to complete the work in nine months. Plans submitted by Mi Hood \esterday were adonted by the hoard.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 299, 19 December 1941, Page 4
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