LANSDOWNE SCHOOL
USE AS- AN EMERGENCY HOSPITAL AUTHORISED BY MINISTER. CORRESPONDENCE COURSE FOR PUPILS. The Minister of Health has issued a warrant authorising the Wairarapa Hospital Board to take over Lansdowne School as an emergency hospital. The board hopes to take possession of the school on Wednesday or Thursday. In the meantime, the pupils are continuing to attend school and will do so right up to the time thetboard takes over the building. It is then proposed, according to Mr W. R. Nicol, of Masterton, a member of the Wellington Education Board, to put the children on a correspondence course. Each morning they will call at the shelter shed at the school to receive their work for the day. This action is necessary, as no alternative accommodation can be found at present, in view of the Tact that the brick portion of Wairarapa College is still closed, pending an official report on earthquake damage. ' The Hospital Board, states the Man-aging-Secretary, Mr Norman Lee, very much regrets having to take the school, over, but it is hoped, unless the situation in respect to the number of patients requiring treatment becomes worse, to vacate the school building as soon as the new ward is finished, in about six weeks’ time.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 July 1942, Page 4
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208LANSDOWNE SCHOOL Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 July 1942, Page 4
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