CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1369, 21 February 1912, Page 4

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL.

TABLET INSCRIPTION,

The Hospital Board decided yesterday that the inscription on tho tablet to bo erected in tho Children's Hospital be as follows:—

King Edward VII Memorial Hospital for Children, Opened by His. Excellency the Governor, Lord Islington, 13th March, 1912. The funds for the erection and equipment were most generously subscribed as a memorial to the late King Edward VII by the citizens of Wellington and District, m response to an appeal by tho Mayoress, Mrs. T. M. Wilford, and were subsidised by the Government.

Members of the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board.

J. G. W. Aitken (Chairman 1910-11), W. !■■ F T /n! s P l 3'™"" 1911-12), R. Clement lurk (Chairman Hospital Committee), G. 1. London (Treasurer), Rev. H. Van btavcren, J. Trevor, H. Baldwin, G. Nash

(Hospital House Committee). Miss ME. Richmond, J. E. Fitzgerald, It. Fletcher, W. Galloway, B. E. Gardener, J. Godber, A. H. Hindmarsh, J. W. M hwan, D. M'Laren, F. T. Moore, ]) Robertson, J. Smith, and W. Tompsitt. H. Hnrdwick Smith, M.D., F.E.C.S., Ei)g., Medical Superintendent. J. Covle, Secretary. F. K. Pavaie, Matron. Architects Atkins and Bacon. Contractors Watts Bros.

It was further decided that the west w ?,, ° f the Children's Hospital bo nam<=d lhe Wilford Ward," the east ward bo named "The Hugh Ward" ward, and the upstairs wards be respectively named riio Islington Ward" (subject to his Excellency s concurrence), and "The Macarthy Ward" (subject to the concurrence of Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Macarthy).