HOSPITAL TRUSTEES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 680, 3 December 1909, Page 9

HOSPITAL TRUSTEES.

THE ELECTION nimC'ULTY. . J n wl ,<!r 4 to V? ei7 a Mcel, in tho 'aw which threatened tp can«o,scnOas difiicnlty in JC TO« n Jl T^" 0 ? T «ct> ?n. of trustees of the Wellington Ilojpital, the Governor has jie-cutcd an Ordcr-m Council making provision foi local Contributing authorities to Imo one vote teach in the election of trustees, and nto nn additionil yoio for every dOOO Inhabiof the district above the iirs<- 4000, The pecretjirv of the Wellington Hospital Trnstws (Mr Cove) haMnit been notified to this tffect b> tho Inspectcr-Gcnen! of Hospitals, hoi ad?ißed the local contributing bodies that an election will take place at noon, next Monday in'the 'I own Hail It, howevtr/ tho Hospitals Bill, .now before Parliament becomes law, bcfort that l-imc, the «leotioa will not take place, o4 the Bill (f.hich comes into force as soon as it, is passed bj both Jlonres) provides for the present trustees remaining in office until nett Annl, Tho Bill was before tho Legislative Council for several hoars in Committee jesterdil, and there appeared last night to be no ptotiibihty of its becoming In in time to latayfero with the election Dr. Valmtiuo (In-epector-Geiloral Hospitals), in a circular letter notifying the «x«cu l ion of the Order-in-Council, suggests to the governing authorities of tho various institution*! concerned that the elections ehould be allowed to stand over pending the passage of tho BilL '