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on its board, and the local community, construction of the hospital had not commenced by the 1930s. In 1934, the site and £100 debt, was offered to the
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Southport Memorial Hospital Committee, which had been established in 1918, when funds and plans
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Hospital, also formerly known as the Southport Maternity Hospital, was first identified as being a suitable location for a hospital in 1921 after a number of other locations had been considered. An initial parcel of land fronting Nerang and Queens Streets was offered by the
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Southport Priority Development Area. Completion of the demolition works was expected by mid 2015. Developer Nerang St Pty Ltd filed a
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Queensland State Parliament and it was acknowledged that there were insufficient funds due to
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who had purchased the property specifically for use as a public hospital. Confirmation of the acceptance of Mr. Black's offer was noted at a meeting of the Women's
Hospital Committee presided over by Mrs. Murray-Prior at the Southport School of the Arts in September 1921.
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Brisbane. The committee undertook to calculate how many local residents had required transportation and treatment in
Brisbane over the previous three years. In 1929, Mr. A. Pope, from the Brisbane and South Coast Hospital Board, addressed a meeting of the
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had progressed further. A series of fund raising events took place in the following years and by 1926 it was reported that £2,000 had been raised and additional land surrounding Mr. Black's property had been secured.
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462:"Heavy demand for Gold Coast Hospital emergency dept"
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1135:"Queensland's public hospitals fail health tests"
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994:"No Provision Yet NEW HOSPITAL AT SOUTHPORT"
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666:. No. 21, 354. 5 July 1926. p. 8
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1252:Neighbourhood, Your (20 September 2020).
1086:. 3 February 1951. p. 7 (LAST RACE)
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494:. gold coast health. Archived from
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1050:"NEW SOUTHPORT MATERNITY HOSPITAL"
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249:Southport Town Council
195:Hospitals in Australia
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433:"Gold Coast Hospital"
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107:Affiliated university
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602:"MEMORIAL HOSPITAL"
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112:Griffith University
1258:Your Neighbourhood
1083:Brisbane Telegraph
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