DR. HUNTER AND HIS QUESTIONER

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1867, 29 September 1913, Page 5

DR. HUNTER AND HIS QUESTIONER

Sir, —I notice a correspondent writing from Dunedin under tho iion-de-plumo Huio Illao Lachrymao, and asking question's. I gladly answer his questions, as far as possible, Yes or No. . v 1. Yes! as por letter. No! as per actions. On February 1905, I wroto to " Otago Daily Times" and extract this:— "On tho third Wednesday of' December, 1904, I sent in a letter of complaint to the Board of Trustees of the Dunedin Hospital, at tho same tinio offering' sane suggestions regarding out-patient department. My suggestions were received, my complaint was ignored. Nothing was done at meeting of the board on February 16. On Fobruarv 18 the "Times" wroto a loading article, and there was a special meeting of the hoard on tlie 21st, when Mr. l'eter Miller —tho chairman—tried exactly tho same tactics as your correspondent. Ho was pulled up .very sharply by tho "Times" leader of tho 22ik1 thus:—"Our comments wero based entirely on tho letter from Dr. Hunter that appeared ill our columns, in which, ffhilo ho informed ua that his complaint jut boea Ignored, tho foot wm nokns^

iedged till at tho trustees had decided as opportunity offered to consider the suggestions ho made. Dates are: O.D.T. i'obruai-y 8, 16, 18, 21, 22, 1905. 2. Yes. Attacks generally resulted in collections and now buildings. 3. I applied in the same terniß as tllo year beforo. All positions at the Dunedin Hospital are vacant every year. Tho trustees can drop anyone out, and have dropped men out. The custom was to apply for what you wanted—you got what tho trustees gave you. I applied for a surgical post ou each occasion. 4. No.

5. Answered in 3 and 4. 6. Ido not know. I did not see the applications. 7. If Dr. Williams was appointed then: Yes. 8. Obviously depends on circumstances. 9. Ob.Viously depends on circuinstanccs. 10. Difficult question to answer. Is Hun Illae Lachryinao a typo of the unprejudiced person? 1 have answered theso questions to vj® ■Ym o£ r my abilit y- Now I ask iirni Illao Laehymao what does it all mean? What is going wrong in the poor fellow's head? I sometimes ask questions in Dunedin. I never get answers, though. I am better instructed than, to ignorantly ask for an answer, Yes or No. I hop® the gentloman is not on the staff of the Dunedin Hospital, though I fear ho is. There is one other thing I do I sign my name to my letters.— Yours, etc., mWIN HUNTER. Dunedm, September 23, 1913.