PROPOSED INQUIRY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1554, 25 September 1912, Page 6

PROPOSED INQUIRY.

9 ■ ■ MOTIONS NOT SECONDED. At yesterday's meeting of the Wellinpton Hospital and Charitable Aid Uoardl Mr. F. T. Moore moved:— . (a) "That with a view to remedying grievances and improving the internal ccouomv of institutions under the boards control, Messrs. Smith, bodhcr, Nash, Fit7."erald, and the mover be appointed an advison- committee, with power t< hear evidence (in camera)i andreceive sug. gestions from «>iy servant of the board oi member of the public, and to frame recommendations for submission to (ho board. No member ot this committee to disclose the source from whence evidence is obtained, and no person shall be penalised in consequence of any evi' deneo given before this confidential committee, (bl That in future all probationary nurses lie selected by ballot, (c) That a preferential ball.it be granted to applicants pledging themselves not to marry for ten years." Mr. F. T. Moore said he thought they should appoint a committee to make closo investigation into the affairs o.' tile liespital by men not, at present holding otlicial positions. If the committee was not set up a clamour would arise from without (hat would make it necessary to have a public inquiry. He had received many letters endorsing his action, and lawyers, doctors, and men of all classes had assured him that he wns doing the right thing. The fault, ho maintained, \va.- that tho he-lids' of the various departmc-nts were vested with too much power, and they hnd got, too high an opinion of themselves. On the lir.-t motion being pnl it lapsed for want of a seconder, winch was alsc tho fate of lhe other two motions.