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Progress, Volume XIV, Issue 3, 1 November 1918, Page 367

+o be developed on the cottage system, tried and proved a success ] in England and Australia. Of the £IO,OOO required to finance 1 the scheme £5,000 is already in hand. s i HAWKE’S BAY, « Plans have been prepared for the consumption sanatorium 1 to be erected by the Defence Department at Hatuma, a short , distance from Waipukurau. The site is a sheltered knoll, and the land surrounding it comprises an undulating area of 360 acres, sunny, and affording fine views of water and the countryside. The main block of buildings will be 300 ft. long, and will contain one, two, and three-bed wards for soldier patients who ( require constant attention. There will be wide verandahs and corridors, with separate storage accommodation for kits, linen rooms, bathrooms, and lavatories. The kitchen and dining blocks, running at right angles to the centre of the main building, comprise separate dining-rooms for officers, patients, and orderlies, and separate serving and washing-up rooms. Ample provision is made for fresh air, and for the separate storage of patients ’ dishes. In the kitchen there is excellent storage and modern cooking appliances. There is also an administrative buildingin the form of a detached wing of the main building. It comprises offices, laboratory, visitors’ waiting-room, etc. On the corresponding wing are the-sleeping quarters of the n.c.o. ’s and orderlies. Connected by verandahs with the main building are sunny two-bed shelters, and dotted about the grounds are the single-bed shelters for patients who require less attention than those in the wards. OAMARU. Tenders were invited by Mr. Dunning of Dunedin for the erection of business premises at Oamaru.. ROTORUA. Tenders were called last month for the erection of new Y.M.C.A. Institute at Pukeroa Hill, Rotorua. Tenders have been accepted by the Government for the erection of four workshops for soldiers under treatment at