SHELTER FOR SUFFERERS

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 382, 29 July 1911, Page 5

SHELTER FOR SUFFERERS

KING COUNTRY CASES

DISCUSSED BY HOSPITAL BOARD. The question of providing some kind of accommodation for the reception of emergency sick and injured eases at Te Kuiti, was mentioned by Mr Boddie, member for this district at the meeting of the Waikato Hospital Board this week.

The speaker related the circumstances of a recent case of a shooting accident, where the unfortunate victim, after having suffered torture from the cold, reached Tc Kniti. where there was no one to receive him and no place to which he could go. Mr Boddie said he recognised the dilliculties with which the. Board had to contend, but he did not ask for a cottage hospital, but merely for some kind of reception'room to which emergency cases similar to the one mentioned by him could he taken until the arrival of a train to carry them on to Hamilton. Ho mentioned that the people of To Kuiti had opened a fund for the object and at a later date a public meeting would be called to discuss the whole question. He asked, therefore, if the Board, in the event of a sufficient sum being collected, would accept the money and with it and the subsidy it would earn, erect a building for the purpose named. Tho Chairman, Mr J. A. Young, thought that any little expense incurred in providing comforts, accommodation and attendance in cases sinn. lar to the one Mr Boddie had spoken of, would always be reimbursed to any member of the Board incurring it. No action was taken in the matter.