Extensions Planned For Edward Murphy Home

Thirty-six years of quiet, efficient service to the community is the impressive record of the Edward Murphy Memorial Home, an institution which measures its success, not in pounds, shillings, and pence, but in the thousands of healthy babies who have spent the first days of their lives within its walls.

More than 140 babies are born every year in the home, which is Gisborne's only private maternity hospital. Caring for unmarried mothers is an important service provided by the Salvation Army. Each year the Edward Murphy Home handles from 15 to 20 of these cases.

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Captain J. Wadman & the matron, Major E. Dallard, in the nursery.

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Brigadier H. C. Goffin comforts a Maori baby.

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With more space badly needed, the Salvation Army is seeking £10,000 to improve facilities. The sketch (right) shows proposed extensions to the delivery room and nursery. A sitting-room is to be added and the whole building will be re-roofed.

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Spacious grounds, facing Aberdeen Road, are quiet, restful