DUNEDIN HOSPITAL

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1818, 26 July 1906, Page 2

DUNEDIN HOSPITAL

A GOVERNMENT PROPOSAL, PRESS ASSOCIATION Dunediu, last night. The foundation stone of the new medioal ward at Dunedin Hospital was laid to-day by His Exoellenoy Lord Plunket in the presence of a representative gathering. The Chairman of the Hospital Trustees (Mr Peter Miller), in the course of bis rema k-, said that £670 had been collected from tbo people of Otago for the new ward, and wiih the Government subsidy and interest earned there was now in band £16,000. Commitments had been made to the extent of £15,250. The old hospital, he pointed out, had beon originally built for the first exhibition held in the colony, end had been always unsuitable. About £30,000 had beoo expended on it, and he thought it wou'd have beon better bad a new building been put up at first. The arohitro's presented Lord Plunket with a gold and greeosiooe trowel and mallet.

The Hon. T. Y. Danoan said that the late lamentod Premier intended Government should set aside a portion,' of our lands for the purposes of education and hospitals. Ho (Mr Duocan) would havß a Bill prepared to oarry that out, anil it would bo ready for whoever m’ght ba Minister of Lands when Parliament mst It was not too much to Bay that if 2,000,000 aores were set aside for oduca* tion and 1,000,003 aeres for hospitals it would ba a very good thing.