A DONATION AND A PROTEST.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 904, 25 August 1910, Page 7

A DONATION AND A PROTEST.

V HARBOUR BOARD AND HOSPITAL, i . .There was a brief discussion at tho ""..' Harbour Board last evening upon a recommendation .by the Wharves and Accounts Committee that the board do- : naie'tho sum of £20 to ,tho Children's. ;. ; Hospital'fund.. Ml. Jones objected-on the ground, first, tliat public money. could not properly bo devoted to such 1 a purpo.se, and secondly, that the money ; t might mere, properly be applied as a donation to the Sailors' Rest. ,'■'. i Mr. Bolton 6aid there, was a, surplus •'" • ■ under the head of .unauthorised oxpen- ,, diture and le ■ saw no reason wly the . .; donation should not-be made, v .The chairman contended that there . was.no.reason why a distinction , should be drawn between the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society, the Sailors' Rest and . the Children's. Hospital. .They had ,to . remember that!they.had on the wharves : Eoveral' hundretl employees,' some of ( .;', whose children would no doubt be ac- ; commodated at the hospital.- ..',-• Mr.,. Harkness, said there were nuni- • bers of 'crying needs in this city to-day demanding -as- much attention as , a-hos- : pital.forchildren He tad every sym-. .' pathy. with. this object and was glad. the citizens, had risen to the occasion and .found an ample supply of money. The board, howeror;' was not in the : same position as a municipal body that levied taxation-only, .in : the city;. It had not the same intimate connection ■ -.',' with-.the Children's; Hospital as with ..'• the 'other bodies.that had been named.' If this donation were justified, so would- -.'. be donations to a fever hospital, a . maternity home, or any: other institu- . tionof 'the-kind. \ : : ■'. . Messrs Daniells and Cohen: approv r - ■ ' . ed. the donation, .the latter declaring '-. that, if a-'.mistake had been made it. . < \ v;aa an- occasion on which they should 'glory in having made a-mistake. ; , The donation was approved, Messrs.' , Jones and ■ Harkness recording .their votes.;in dissent. :,■ ■ .' - ■-. "■ ■'■■'' •■ - 1 —— ','--