TO RELIEVE OVERCROWDING.
AUCKLAND MENTAL HOSPITAL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Auckland, January 5. The Public Work's Department' is inviting fresh tenders for the erection of an auxiliary Mental Hospital at Point Chevalier, near the existing asylum. It is understood the scheme provides for an additional 300 patients and medical eliiccrs' quarters. Tho Department considered tho question of erecting a temporary building, 80ft. by -10ft., in tho grounds, to relieve the present ovrcrowding, but, owing to the cost and other difficulties, it iva* decided to go in for n comprehensive scheme.
A contract has been signed for (ho erection of the first of the Mental Hospilal buildings at Tokanui, near To Awaniulit (Auckland). The successful tenderers were Messrs. Donald .M'Lean and Sons (Wellington), and tho contract price is .C13,G27. The only other tenderers were Messrs. C. F. Uamon and .Sons' (Auckland), who offered to erect the building for <£13,800. Tliis is tho first of a. number of Mental Hospital buildings which are to be erected at Tokanui, with a view to relieving the congestion which exists at too Aacklaad Mental HosjitoL,
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1330, 6 January 1912, Page 4
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179TO RELIEVE OVERCROWDING. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1330, 6 January 1912, Page 4
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