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Nelson Hospital Board. Nelson Hospital—Plans are almost complete for additions to this hospital. Temporary accommodation for nurses has been built. Plans have been finalized for maternity hospitals at Takaka and Collingwood. Additions have been made to the Motueka Hospital. Marlborough Hospital Board. Additions to the Nurses Home and to the Holmdale Maternity Home are in process of erection : also alterations to the Wairau Hospital. Plans for an administration block and an additional ward block are under discussion. The rebuilding of the Picton Hospital is being considered. Wellington Hospital Board. An emergency ward of fifty beds has been erected at Wellington Hospital, and the childrens' operating theatre has been remodelled. A stores block and a new boiler-house are under construction. Piling and excavations have been carried out for a block of 127 nurses' beds and for the Centennial Hospital Block. New X-ray apparatus has been purchased. Plans have been prepared for a hospital at Hutt Valley, and for alterations to Wellington Hospital. Maternity accommodation has been provided at Hutt Valley. Palmerston North Hospital Board. Palmerston North Hospital.—An emergency ward is almost completed. Final plans are almost complete for the isolation block and for additions to the Nurses' Home. Awapuni Home.—Additions are being built at the Awapuni Home. Wairarapa Hospital Board. Masterton Hospital.—A swimming-bath has been erected. Alterations to wards and to the administration block are being made at the Masterton Hospital. Additional nurses' accommodation has been completed. Greytown Hospital—Alterations have been made to the theatre block and kitchen. Dannevirke Hospital Board. Dannevirlce Hospital.—New X-ray apparatus has been purchased. The new wards and administration block are almost completed. Additions were made to the boiler-house. Wanganui Hospital Board. Wanganui Hospital—Additions have been made to the massage department. New X-ray equipment has been purchased. Raetihi Hospital. Plans have been completed for additional wards and nurses' accommodation. Taranaki Hospital Board. New Plymouth Hospital.—Additions to the X-ray department, and alterations in order to provide adequate out-patients and house surgeons' accommodation are being completed Opunake Hospital.—Additions have been made to this hospital. Waipawa Hospital Board. Waipukurau Hospital.—Plans have been completed for new wards, additions to the Nurses' Home and extensions to the out-patients' department. New X-ray equipment has been purchased. Hawke's Bay Hospital Board. Hastings Hospital—A Medical Superintendent's residence and temporary accommodation for the nurses have been built, also alterations to the hospital. New X-ray equipment has been purchased. 1 Jans lor additional accommodation for tlie nursing staff are being prepared. Napier Hospital.—Plans have been agreed upon for new X-ray block, mortuary, teaching block and Nurses Home. An old building was renovated to accommodate chronic patients. Wairoa Hospital Board. Plans have been prepared for a new maternity hospital and for additions to the hospital and to the Nurses Home. 1 Cook Hospital Board. Extensions to the Nurses' Home are in course of erection. Alterations have been made to the hospital. A tuberculosis annexe is being planned. New boiler-house and laundry have been completed. Opotiki Hospital Board. Plans are m process of preparation for an extensive remodelling of Opotiki Hospital including increased accommodation and the provision of accommodation for tuberculosis cases.

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