AUCKLAND REPORT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 13, 7 September 1931, Page 4

AUCKLAND REPORT

STATEMENT THAT ROTORUA HOSPITAL IS TO BE DEMOLISHED

TWO DISUSED WARDS ONLY A report published in an Auckland daily to the effect tbat the King George V. Hospital at Rotorua is to be demolished and re-erected at Otaki, is given a complete denial hy the authorities. The report has apparently been founded upon the decision of the Department to remove the old Suvla and Anzac wards, which have not been in use sinee 1922', and erect them at Otaki in connection with the children's health eamp which it is proposed to establish there. The report which gave rise to the unfounded rumour of the hospitaFs. removal was as follows: — "The demolition of King George V. Hospital at Rotorua and its reerection at Otaki, on the site Mr Byron Brown recently presented to the Government for the purpose of a children's health camp, has been decided upon hy the authorities. Tenders for dismantling the hospital and transferring and re-erecting it at Otaki are now being called. - The work of transferring the hospital is to be expedited with a view to having it re-erected on the new site for the coming summer. "It is expected that the work will be completed in about three months. The site of the eamp is about 100 acres in area, and there is threequarters of a mile frontage to a beach." When inquiries were mad© on Saturday, the "Post" was infqrmed that the only portion of the hospital which is- to be removed was the two wards already mentioned. These were in use when war cases were being j^reated at the hospital but have not been occupied for the last nine years. The present activities of the hospital will not be in any way re-arranged. .