CHILDREN'S WARD

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 58, 27 May 1942, Page 4

CHILDREN'S WARD

<fr - . ■;. Sir, —It is with great pleasure I follow up your leader of 11th; May on the above subject, seeing no other person has taken up the challenge with you. You appear* to have hit' where it hurts most. Mr Buddie takes up your challenge, it is very surprising such a letter should be written by a person with so many years service as a member of our hospital board. I notice he tries to get behind a smoke screen, in th/at fye. f brings forward the Social Act. Assuming his statement to her correct, I ask what bebateable point he has brought forward against the Act. Surely he knows, only about five years after the present hospital was taken over from the contractors, theyi started on a new building programme which has continued up to the present time, these things must take place in any expanding district J with a growing population, nothing being said about this, only a case made out of what the future requirements are. He refuses to let the Hospital Board members or the staff take any t blame for the state of affairs which has called for these letters. I would like to make it clear, such complaints can be borne out by patients, who have had the misfortune % to spend some' portion of their lives in our public hospital' during the past 14 years, someone must take the responsibility. Let us have the facts so that we may judge! Let me now bring forward another statement re our hospital, published on 27th June last, made by a County Council , member. I askedi that the hospital board should not let that statement go unchallenged, but a dry pen was the order of the day. So we now take it that silence in that case gave consent. Seeing a similar statement was made to me last week, as being the cause of present pending alterations and thus higher rate, have we to take it that such statements are permitted in an endeavour to make a case against the Social Security Act. Let us show we are our brothers , keeper, if not, what chance have we of having a new world order.

Yours etc., HARRY CARR.