The Chronicle

BULAWAYO, Thursday, February 22, 1968 — The Bulawayo City Council will ask the Minister of Local Government, Mr Mark Partridge, during his visit to Bulawayo today, to hand over to the council the “perimeter areas” of Ingutsheni Hospital.

At yesterday’s council meeting Clr Abe Menashe said the Government was taking far too long about deciding how much of the Ingutsheni land it could turn over to the council for industrial sites, which were urgently needed.

“Ingutsheni can go anywhere. Industrial land can’t,” he said.

Clr Menashe also asked: “What happened to the industrial land adjoining Gifford High School?”

The Mayor, Clr W R Kinleyside said: “That is not finalised with the Government yet, though they have accepted the principle.”

Clr S Jossel said that as a member of the Industrial Committee he knew of numbers of applications for industrial land in Bulawayo.

“There seems there is nothing that people can rent,” he said. “The Ingutsheni site is mostly veld. It is time that Ingutsheni Hospital was modernised and placed in the hospital belt.”

Clr J Goldwasser said Ingutsheni Hospital would have to be moved some time. “The council will probably have to pay towards the cost of moving it, to get that ground.

“This is a step I consider will pay the City, though it may amount to a fairly large sum.” But long before discussions on that move began, “steps should be taken by the Government to divest themselves of the perimeter of the site - 10 to 20 acres. This should be availed immediately as industrial sites.”