INVESTIGATING SITE FOR NEW GREY HOSPITAL

Grey River Argus, 13 October 1948, Page 2

INVESTIGATING SITE FOR NEW GREY HOSPITAL

£250,000 Building Mentioned

The suitability and availability of land owned by the Perotti Estate as a hospital site is to be reported on, according to a decision of the Grey Hospital Board last night. The recommendation was made by the Sur-geon-Superintendent (Dr S. Barclay). The chairman (Mr A. Mosley) said the Board was not committed by such inquiries. If, in the future it became necessary for the Board or the Department to find a site, they could say they had one handy to the town. Mi- J. Oakley said it was a step in the right direction. The Government had promised, nine years ago, to build a hospital costing a quarter of a million pounds. Mr Mosley said that when last senior members of the Department were in Greymouth they had asked if the Board could suggest another site. “I would say, in regard to the press”, said Mr Mosley, ‘‘that I would not like them to mention the locality, because it might prove an incentive to others to go after it”. EDITORIAL NOTE :

It is to be doubted if the mention of a particular area as a future hospital site should be an “incentive to others to go after it” —as Mr Mosley suggests However, he is no doubt aware of the very recent announcement that the N.Z. Newspaper Proprietors’ Association, at the request of the New Zealand Journalists’ Union, instructed its members on the strict observance of the ordinary rule governing matters discussed “in committee”. Equally, he may have noticed the decision to use journalistic discretion where requests are made to press reporters, not to mention certain facts, even though such may not be the general wish of a local body, as expressed by a resolution which would place the meeting properly “in committee”. Mr Mosley’s own request does not, therefore, seem to be one on which we should prevent our readers from being given" information.—Editor.