THE MENTAL HOSPITAL
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS. SI’KCIAI- TO CU.«inC.IN. WELLINGTON, Dec. 8. Air Seddon (Westland) asked the Minister for Health to-day whether any decision had been reached with regald to the Mental Hospital at HokitikReports which had been made with recard to the institution were adverse, he believed, and he asked the Minister if anv improvements would be made. The Minister said the Government recognised that it was necessary to do something in this case without ih'lay and to that end the sum of £«*> had been placed on the Estnnates. matter was before Cab.net last and Cabinet decided on a grant that would enable a beginning to be made at once. It would enable the workshops tl , be erected and foundations of tlm work to be commenced. Ho though there was no question that it ««'• 1 possible to carry on until the works i-ouiplotcd. Mr Seddon-Will the programme outlined by the medical officer be lurried out? ’ ~ Afr Parr— Practically that. He added that he was not sure all of his suggestions would be embodied, but they would Iks the essence »f the sclwtue. He proposed to visit the W«\t Coast in the first week in February and would see the institution for himself.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 December 1921, Page 2
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202THE MENTAL HOSPITAL Hokitika Guardian, 8 December 1921, Page 2
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