NEW NURSES’ HOME PROJECT GOING AHEAD

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 8, 15 October 1948, Page 5

NEW NURSES’ HOME PROJECT GOING AHEAD

Board's Future Policy Outlined Yesterday’s meeting of th® Bay of Plenty Hospital Board, in receipt of awaited permission from the Health Department, and assured that loan money will be available, decided to call tenders for the building of additional nurses’ accommodation to increase the buildings’ trained staff housing capacity to 44. The finance committee was given authority to go ahead with the raising of £30,000 loan already authorised. , There was considerable discussion as to the lines future development should follow. The chairman, Mr J. Mullins, reporting on committee consideration ■of the subject, pointed out the urgent necessity for store accommodation and the possible early need for an administrative block. He .suggested that new domestic quarters should be built and the present domestic block nsed for a store. "Those developments, in his opinion, -were more urgent than the ultimate •.second stage of the expansion of -nurses’ quarters. Dr E. T. Dawson, medical sup.er- : intendent, agreed that a proper .-store was urgently necessary, as .also were new domestic quarters. Mrs D. E. ■ Sumner and Messrs A. ;F. McGougan and W. J. Caulfield . with the chairman in prin- ■ ciple, but felt the old domestic building would not be suitable for .a store. Mr Caulfield suggested that it might be used for male staff, and possibly the front portion for a sew- . ing room. All those speakers agreed, with support from Mr L. Buddie, who finally moved, that a new domestic block (already authorised) be built, that authority be sought for a new store building and that the present ■ domestic block be used for male staff accomodation and for the sewing room; further, that provision be made during the next two years for ..an administrative block. Seconded by Mr Caulfield, that : motion was carried, and an architect .is to be consulted.