HOSPITAL BUILDINGS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1942, Page 4

HOSPITAL BUILDINGS

APPROVAL OF EMERGENCY PROPOSALS. NON-INTERFERENCE WITH SCHOOLS. Approval of proposals in respect to hospital buildings outlined by Mr H. H. Mawley, chairman of the Wairarapa Hospital Board, is expressed by Mr W. R. Nicol, chairman of the Wairarapa College Board of Governors and a member of the Wellington Education Board. Suggestions, said Mr Nicol, that school buildings should be occupied for military hospital purposes had been viewed with apprehension, which was confirmed by the experience in Palmerston North and Blenheim where schools had been unable to reopen. Those in control of primary and secondary education greatly appreciated the opportunity to confer with the Hospital Board and their definite proposals to meet the position instead of taking the line of least resistance and appropriating school buildings with consequent injury to the education of the children. Mr Nicol said he was in touch with the larger proposals referred to by Mr Norman Lee under the Emergency Precautions Service and thought Wairarapa was fortunate in the careful planning referred to and he was sure that if the plan was put into action, the hospital authorities would have the heartiest co-operation from those in charge of school buildings. Tribute was also paid to the offer of the associated builders in pooling their resources to erect the building referred to by Mr Mawley in the short time of five weeks and he thought such a building would prove most useful for epidemic or similar purposes.