HOSPITAL CONTROL

Evening Star, Issue 22457, 30 September 1936, Page 1

HOSPITAL CONTROL

AUCKLAND ID APPOINT DIRECTOR SALARY OF £1.200 [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, September 29. The appointment of a director, to have complete • jntrol of all the activities of the Auckland Hospital except medical and nursing at a salary of £1,200 a year was decided upon by the Hospital' Board at a special. meeting to-day. The decision was made on the casting vote of the chairman (the He 7 * W. C. Wood), who had suggested the appointment in view of the recommendations concerning the,, administration of the hospital contained in, a special report by Mr G, Grey Campbell, a public accountant, and discussed at a series of special meetings recently. The Chairman, suggesting that a director should be appointed at a salary of £1,200 a year, rising to £1,500 at the rate of £IOO a year, and that the position should be advertised throughout New Zealand and the different States of Australia, quoted from. Mr Campbell’s report statements that the organisation of the hospital had suffered from a lack of co-ordination in administration, and that it was essential that the hoard should delegate its power and responsibility to a competent executive officer to carry out the policy of the board and be entirely respon sible for the administration, ,