HOSPITALS & STORES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1943, Page 2

HOSPITALS & STORES

BUILT FOR AMERICAN GOVERNMENT WILL HAVE POST-WAR UTILITY. SOME TO BE CONVERTED INTO SCHOOLS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) SYDNEY, September 10. Construction work for the United States Government in New Zealand had been fitted info a long-range plan and mostly would have a post-war usefulness, said Mr A. G. Osborne, Un-der-Secretary to the Prime Minister, in an address last night, when answering a question whether American hospitals built under reverse lend-lease would be destroyed after the war. “The whole building programme, not only for hospitals, but also for stores, has been planned with an eye to the future,” said Mr Osborne. “It has a long-range value.” As far as possible, he added, stores had been erected adjacent to railway sidings and would be utilised by the Railways Department. Future utility had been carefully considered in every case. Regarding hospitals, Mr Osborne said similar care had been taken. Where no additional hospital accommodation was needed in a particular area for the community, these buildings had been erected after a survey of educational requirements, where they would be suitable for use as intermediate schools. Hospitals and stores had been sited in certain localities so that their post-war conversion to educational use would be possible. Other buildings had been modelled so that they would be easily convertible into flats.