HOSPITAL ESTIMATES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 925, 19 March 1930, Page 7

HOSPITAL ESTIMATES

PROPOSED LOAN EXPENDITURE TOTALS £66,266 CAPITAL WORK £41,672 Estimates for the expenditure of £ 66,266 of loan money during the next financial year on works in progress and definitely contemplated were adopted by the Auckland Hospital Board yesterday. Capital expenditure planned for the same period totalled £ 41.672. The load expenditure to which tli: board is committed for the infectious diseases block and equipment was shown as £33,266. Among the contemplated works £ 30,000 was provided fur a male infirmary ward and £ 3,000 for the operating theatre at the hospital. At the hospital the capital expenditure proposed included: Main entrance footpaths, £170; staff quarters, £590; equipment and sundry buildings, £1,500. The items for the infirmary included: Sanitary towers, £621: equipment and sundry buildings, £600; investments from special funds, £1,034; Grafton Road fence, £200; sinking fund, £23,000; and miscellaneous, £250In the works definitely contemplated the proposed expenditure was: Kitchen. £2,500; telephone intercommunication, £500; filtration and swimming bath. £1,600; all at the hospital. Sums of £I,OOO was provided for the T.B. shelters at the infirmary and for the Warkworth Hospital, and £750 for an ambulance at Pukekohe were also provided. A total of £6,000 was earmark©* for expenditure on the | board's building in Kitchener Street.