WAIROA HOSPITAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 151, 14 July 1937, Page 3

WAIROA HOSPITAL

Our Own Correspondent.)

Two Tenders Let for Staff Accommodation Buildings tion Buildings 121c

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WAIROA, This Day. ' At the Hospital Board meeting on Tuesday afternoon, the board proceeded to deal with tenders for the building of a cottage for the hospital maids, and for additions to the Nurses' Home, the housing of the nursing staff being a very urgent problem for some time. Piuor to opening the tenders, the local architect attended the meeting and added to his original estimates the increases rendered necessary by the requirements of the Health Department, and which had been already made known to. the intending tenderers. Mr Harker said that with 55 patients in the instdtufcion it was essential that the work should . be done as quickly as possible, and it would pay the board to offer an inducement to bring this about. The contract time was ten weeks, and he moved that a compensatory clause be added to provide for the payment of a sum of £2 10/- per dav-week for every day the work has been completed within the epecified time, and per contra, that the penalty for being over the time be strictly enforced. This was carried. Tenders were then opened, there being only three for the cottage for the maids, and one for the Nurses* Home. After consjderation, and subject to the consent of the Minister, the tender of Messrs Sharpe and Telford, of North Clyde, for the cottage, at £1419, w.i's accepted, and that of W. Hedley and Co., Wairoa, for the Nurses' Home additions, £1625. The department is to be asked to hasten the finalising of the matter, the need for the increased accommodation being a matter of urgencv.