ALTERATIONS PLANNED AT TAUPO HOSPITAL

Taupo Times, Volume IV, Issue 178, 24 June 1955, Page 1

ALTERATIONS PLANNED AT TAUPO HOSPITAL

Sihe Waikato Hospital Board was mormed last week #that plans and ^w&fications for extensive alteraJ&jM' to the Taupo Maternity Hospigp'are almost complete and now formal approval by the Health BfSiartment. BW&. V * t i PA cqntract has been let for the tarBgjaliiig of the entrance to the HosKal and the improving of the grade, mpat stormwater will not accumuHp^near the doors. KjLt the meeting of the Board Mr K'S. Andrews, Rotorua County rep||i|entative, said that the Taupo St. |Mn Ambulance Association was exgpencing difficuly in securing a site (pa clubroom and ambulance garHe, and the Board intimated it Huuld favourably consider an appliEtion, if one were made to it, for a Rj& The Ghairman said that ample puid was available. Bfhe Board's architect mentioned Hl when the Taupo Town Board gfid applied to the Hospital Board ipr land for a mortuary it had been ffirned down. Mr E. G. Guy compjtnted, "This is the difference beMeen the quick and the dead." BWhen the Taupo Times referred the l&atter of a site, for the St. John ipnbulance Association's clubroom find garage, to the Mayor, Mr J., E. |Story, he stated that the Taupo llprough Council had already providpd the Association with a site. This JSid been done long since, and it apKared that Mr Andrews had not My understood the position when W made the reference reported Sbove.