HAMMER HEALTH RESORT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 183, 9 January 1912, Page 5

HAMMER HEALTH RESORT.

. —' . ~ ~ MINISTER SPEAKS STRONGLY. WiHTY ARE THEY NOT SELFDEPENDENT. By Telegraph—Press Association. ' Wellington/Last Night. The Hon. T. M&ckeniie, Minister ia charge of the Health Department, to-day informed a deputation from Hanmer, \ which complained that several matters in their opinion required looking into, that the place ought to he leased and managed. It was distinctly difficult to look after these places from such a distance. Did it not all show that the Government was ve'ry foolish to bother with these places at all? Ministere should have something else to do .then i to he-,-bothered with the administration of They could never be made fiay under existing conditions. As Government run institutions they would never toe permanently satisfactory. "Take Rotorua" he continued. ' "We .have had more objections from Rotorua proportionately than from any other pla.ee. A great deal of this oppositkm was carping criticism, hut -there is a lot of it merely political. If Rotorua is not satisfied with what has been done, what can he done with other places? A place like Hanmer could always be . best» ' managed' by those resident and interested in the place. Those people could dp a great deal of minor work, which did not involve a big cost. He pointed out that the Government spent something like £IO,OOO in the last threa. years in improvements in and about Hanmer. He reiterated that in his opinion the best thing that could be done was to lease the place as a sanatorium.