CARE OF EX-SOLDIERS

Taranaki Daily News, 10 April 1920, Page 4

CARE OF EX-SOLDIERS

SANATORIA TO BE KEPT UP. HOSPITAL AT EACH CENTRE uy Teleernjih.—rress Atsoelatlor Christchurch, Last Night. Sir James Alien, Minister of Defence, wiio has returned from a brief visit to Hanmer, found .the Quee;> Mary Hospital very greatly improved. He stated the replacing of the orderlies by sister. l ) and V.A.D.'s had worked a very great improvement. "How long will the Hanmer Hospital be kept going?" Sir James was asked. "X don't- think it can possibly be done away with for at least two or three years,'' he replied, "and, after that, I imagine, the public health authorities should take it over as a neurasthenic hospital for civil patients. It is an exceedingly vnluable place on account of tha climate. I think Rotorua will be kept on by the civil people. Instead of building a civil sanatorium the present building should serve for the next twenty years. We are gradually diminishing the numbers at Rotorua, and we shall concentrate on the chronic cases. We have got a Hace provided by the Red Cross at Dunedin, and negotiations are going on for a plaee at Auckland provided by the Red Cross, and possibly some steps will have to be taken to provide for chronic cases at Canterbury and Wellington."