Hospital to Hostel

The temporary reprieve of the Bowen Street Hospital from the M.O.W's jugernaut, has also meant a temporary reprieve for 43 of Wellington's home less students. An attempt has been made, at Bowen Street, to create a community of disparate ages, sexes end nationalities, although there is a slight imbalance of too many senior New Zealand male students and too few female students. Whet vacancies there are, are almost exclusively reserved for overseas first year students who have not yet arrived at Victoria.

Rooms are let at the rate of $8.50 for a single room and $6.50 for a double room. These rates are designed to recoup the several thousand dollars spent so far, on setting up the hospital for student accommodation. The residents will buy their basic grocery items communally, in bulk, and $5.00 has been levied from each resident for this purpose, but this will be reduced in the future.

At the moment there is a shortage of furniture and kitchen implements, although the public has responded with offers of gifts ranging from bed spreads to a stove. The only stain on this otherwise happy picture, is the projected August 1973 demolition of the students new home.

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