Story: Hawke’s Bay region
The Napier suburb of Hospital Hill is so named for Napier Hospital, which opened in 1880. The Napier Hospital complex closed in 1998 when the region’s main hospital services were concentrated in Hastings. The buildings (the tall structure at right in this photograph) were still empty in 2009. The government agreed to sell the complex (seen as prime real estate) to a Napier developer in 2006. This agreement fell over during a world-wide financial crisis three years later.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Whites Aviation Collection
Reference: WA-68592
Photograph by Leo Lemuel White
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
