STAFF ACCOMODATION

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 70, Issue 91, 18 July 1944, Page 5

STAFF ACCOMODATION

PURCHASE OF SECTION SQUARING UP OF HOSPITAL BLOCK i When the Government Housing Department offered the Whakatane Hospital Board an adjacent section for the price of £80, members at last week's meeting raised a number of enquiries as to the necessity for such an acquisition. The chairman, Mr L. Buddie, explained that the idea was to square the. Hospital block up by purchasing the cottages and the road frontage, and also the vacant section concerned. By this means, accommodation coud be provided for the nursing staff, thirteen of which were at present living out. "This seems like the thin end of the wedge of something to me." said Mr Caulfield. "I'd like to know something more about it." The Chairman:: I consider it. sound business to acquire it before it is built on. The cottages will always be an asset. Mr McGougan said that he had always favouied the purchase of these sections as a means of squaring up the block. Mr Mull ins said that he would like to get the doctor's information on the question of staff, as many people were, under the, impression that the present staff was sufficient to cope with the needs of eighty patients. He suggested that the question of purchasing the section should be deferred for a month. This course was agreed to.