DUNSTAN DISTRICT HOSPITAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 610, 26 December 1873, Page 2

DUNSTAN DISTRICT HOSPITAL.

Election of Resident Surgeon. The coming e’eorion for Resident Surgeon t > tlio Duustan I);s riel Hospital has caused a deal of inquiry as to tne mode of election. and whe her there will he more than one booth. Our Cromwell contemporary suggested the advisibi ity of polling booths a‘ each centre of population within the District if such could be legally arranged. The office s of Committee of Management, in whom bauds is placet the conducting of tire election, neof opinion that to keep within the four corners of the Provincial Ordinance regulating the management of hospitals, such a course could not be pursued, an 1 cou-epieutly have deoiled on one booth, and lire poll to take place on • s alnrd:.y, January 10th, 1874 between the hours of 11, a.m and 3. p. in. For the inf irmatiun of subscribers we pub'ish the Sections i f the Ordinance regu'ating the election :•

11. Notwithstanding anything in the said “ Hospitals Ordinance 1862 ” to the contrary, no contributor to the funds of any 11. spital shall be entitled to vote at any m wting of the election of the Committee or other officers of such Hos itid, unless such contributor shall be of the full age of twenty-me years, ami sha l have paid his annual contribution of one pound at the least, or an amount of ten pounds in one sum to the fun is of such Hospital, at least one month before the date at which such nice iug shall he held.

IV. E\c y contributor qualified and intending to vote at any meeting for the election of the Committee and other officers, and at the a m ual meetings or any special general meetings for elections or fil.i :g up vacancies agreeably to the rules of any bispital, shall deliver to the chairman of the meeting a ticket with the na ues of the persons written thereon for whom hj" intends to vote, the number of such persons not being greater than the number of per-ona to bo elected otherwise the said vole to be null and void, and the sai 1 ticket aigne I by the person presenting it shall be f nth with deposited in a box. and sh ill not bo withdrawn therefrom until the same slu'd he delivefc I to scrutineers to lie appointed by the chairman of the meeting.