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A view of the 1941 Nurses’ Home looking south from the Godfrey Santon Block with the 1963 multistorey Nurses’ Home behind on the extreme right. Photo: Author’s personal collection, 2010
Third Nurses’ Home, built 1957
This large two-storey building was erected on a site to the east of the second Nurses’ Home in a
north-south alignment. It cost over £80,000 to build61 and equip it, and could accommodate the 86
nursing staff at the Hospital at that time. The upstairs portion was occupied by Nursing Sisters, the
ground floor rooms by Staff Nurses and Maternity Nurses. The new building also provided flats for
the Assistant Matron and the Charge Sister of the Maternity Annex and a bed-sitting room. There
was also a small room for staff to entertain visitors, bath and shower rooms, ironing room and sewing,
linen room, drying and washing room and the Home Sister’s office. In 2011 the building was being
used by Regional Community Services and District Nursing staff.
A view of the 1957 Nurses’ Home looking south from the Godfrey Santon Block with the
link to the 1941 Nurses’ Home. Photo: Author’s personal collection, 2010
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Adrianna Harawira et al, Whakatāne Hospital re-union 1988, (Whakatāne, Mann Printing Ltd) 1988, pg 3
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