T. B. Shelters

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 101, 20 July 1927, Page 13

T. B. Shelters

ROUND-TABLE CONFERENCE SITE IN HOSPITAL GROUNDS The much-discussed question of Domain Shelters was before the Auckland Hospital Board yesterday. As a result a round-table conference on the subject will shortly take place. The City Council in a letter to the board requested the removal of the whole of the shelters and the Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association asked for a round-table conference with the board, the Red Cross and the Patriotic Association. The arrangement had been that the shelters would be burned as they were vacated, said Mr. J. Wallace, chairman. Now the council requested that they should be removed. It was not the board which was responsible for the men being put in the Domain, and the board did not want to remove them, but if it had to remove them it would do as much as possible for their comfort. It was not the duty of the board, but of the Government, to look after these men. The Government should establish one or two homes in each island for these cases. Mr. Wallace paid a tribute to the work of the Red Cross Society for what it had done to care for the patients. Mr. E. H. Potter suggested that the shelters should be removed into the hospital grounds. He was surprised at the City Council demanding the removal of the shelters. Mr. M. J. Savage, M.P., agreed that it was a national liability, but it seemed that the board itself would have to do the best possible. He igreed that they might be housed in he hospital grounds.