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Date: 5 February 2010

Blessing before demolition at Waikato Hospital

Waikato District Health Board will acknowledge the past and look to the future at a dawn blessing ceremony next Friday (12 February).

The 7am ceremony led by Tainui Kaumatua with the Waikato Hospital chaplaincy will farewell four hospital buildings and bless the site for further construction.

The old Distribution Centre, Purchasing, Kitchen and Bendall buildings are all marked for demolition to make way for the new Waikato Clinical Centre.
Waikato DHB Service and Campus Redevelopment (SCR) project director Ian Wolstencroft said these buildings date back to 1908 and hold a lot of history for many people.

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