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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 616, 19 March 1929, Page 7

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WHANGAREI BOARD SECURES PROPERTY END OF LONG DISPUTE (From Our Own CorrenpondcHt) WHANGAREI, Monday. The Whangaref Hospital Board decided to-day to exercise its option over live acres and a 10-roomed dence near the hospital, and to put Ml 9 house in order at once, to provide winter Quarters and a permanent home for old pensioners. The board s option covered an alternative of 17 acres of the same property and if there was a possibility of an old men s home being established at Whangarei as the centre for all the liospilal districts of North Auckland members of the board would have favoured the larger scheme. In the absence of any definite prospect in that direction an amendment by Mr. D. A. McLean, seconded by Air* K. Hosking, was carried to purchase the five acres and to endeavour to sub«* I sequently arrange for an adjoining twoj I acres, making seven in all. ! The housing of the old people at j Kamo Springs has divided the board for | some years and Mr. I>. A. McLean welcomed the happy termination of the protracted discussions in to-day's decision. The board decided to advertise for an assistant medical superintendent at .£ 500 a year. Efforts to secure a house surgeon to fill the present vacancy had been fruitless, both in Australia and the Dominion, and the decision to offer the larger salary and more important position was regarded as the only satisfactory way of over- . coming the difficulty, caused by the scarcity of younger men available as house surgeons.