The Times. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS. TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1918 COTTAGE HOSPITAL SCHEME.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 379, 28 May 1918, Page 2

The Times. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS.

TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1918 COTTAGE HOSPITAL SCHEME.

"We nothing extenuate, nor iel down auaht in malice. 1 '

An application, promoted by, the Waiuku Chamber ot Commerce and forwarded by the Waiukt Town Board, for the establishment of a Cottage Hospital al Waiuku was before the Auckland Hospital Board on Tuesday lasl but owing to the impossibility oi embarking in any building schemes during the currency ol the war the request was tiol entertained although it is probable that the appointment of a District Nurse for the Waiuku area may be tlie outcome. In the matter of a site for a Cottage Hospital in Franklin County, however, Pukekohe has decidedly better claims than Waiuku and such a project was more than once mooted at meetings of the Franklin County Council by Mr Joseph Henry but having regard to the expenditure that would be entailed in building and equipping such an institution the Council considered that the exigencies of the war rendered U advisable to postpone any petition on the subject to the Hospital Board. With respect to the new development we would point out that a cottage hospital at Waiuku would serve but a restricted area and moreovei would only administer for a small and widely sea tiered . population. On the ot lit*i hand Pnkekohe is essentially l lie centre of Franklin County with a fairly large community in its midst and easy of access from tlie whole of the surrounding districts -' Waitvku indeed, ? could without tin-' slightest difficulty and with tapidiU. >end patients or victims of accidents._Vto_a. h■ >it-1 ai. PukvkoUe. Waiuku is wiv-proprrlv ambitious but the d;i\ iias in,! \ c ! :n i ived when it > in t ike pi credence ot Pukekohe ■nid tir: Hospital Boatd are 1111likt lv to give it preference in that wav. Waiuku's action should be hi incentive to thi' Pukekohe' people to be on the watch to act when the war F our so that they | should not be forest died by their ici>'i)botiis.