AUCKLAND HOSPITAL

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 96, 20 October 1926, Page 9

AUCKLAND HOSPITAL

RESULT OF THE INQUIRY.

The report of the Commissioner (Mr. A. Gray K.C.) appointed to inquire into matters of administration at the Auckland Hospital states that, except in the matter of paying two commissions (one to the architect and one to the consulting engineer) for the equipment of .tho laundry with machinery and its installation, there was no evidence of insufficient consideration, negligence, unnecessary expenditure, extravagance, or waste by the board or the members of it. But in this matter the fees, which the board agreed to pay, -\verc unduly high. He found that the ordering of the wrong, machinery in the laundry, and a consequent loss to the board, and i also delay, was the result of the architect (Mr. Allsop) acting on his own initiative and without reference to Mr. Walker (tho consulting engineer). Tho Commission, however, found that both had a joint responsibility in the affair, oven though tho consulting engineer considered he had none under the circumstances. In connection wifh the dispute between Mr. Somerville and Mr. Allsop, Mr. Gray, found thajt the hitter was mainly to blame, although tho former was not altogether absolved. The coats were apportioned among the Hospital Board, Mr. Allsop, and Mr. Walker.