HOSPITAL BOARDS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20102, 4 December 1930, Page 16

HOSPITAL BOARDS.

MEETING OF EXECUTIVE. (PRESS ASSOCIATION TKI.EGn.AM.) WELLINGTON, December 3. A meeting of the executive of the Hospital Boards' Association was liold to-day, when various phasPS of the unemployment. question wero discussed. It was TUentionad that tho Government would be well advised to take steps to restrict tho influx of unemployed from other countries which might occur aa a nalural result of the unemployed problem being substantially relieved in this country. The residential clause in tho Unemployment Bill would have the effect, it was felt, of throwing the liability on to the hospital boards in case of indigent new arrivals, and the relief which hospital boards hoped to obtain under tho Unemployment Act might thereby, to a certain extent, be cancelled. In bidding farowcll to Dr. Valintine on his retirement from the position of Director-General of Health, members of the Association to-day eulogised his work in connexion with the establishment of the hospital system of the Dominion, and on behalf of the members of the hospital boards Mr Wallace, chairman of tho Association, made a presentation to Dr. Valintine in recognition of his long and valuable service.