WANGANUI HOSPITAL.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Sir, — Some of your contemporaries are in too great a hurry to jump at the conclusion that because I inspected the Wangarrai Hospital, and drew attention to its inadequacy, I therefore have become a convert to the proposal for the erection of a new hospital at Wanganui. Mr Remington's remarks at the last Board's meeting might have led to such impressions, but the whole matter is of such extreme importance that until I have obtained the result to some enquiries that I am making I absolutely decline to commit myself to aniline °f policy. The question of having a large and efficient central institution to be tendered and fed by cottage hospitals; or, on the other hand, to divide the large district into two smaller ones, each to have its own hospital, should not be decided in the interest of local jealousies, or entertained without satisfactory data to go upon. An amending Act is now under the consideration of the Cabinet, and the Minister of Lands has promised to suggest that the draft may be communicated to the various Boards before being embodied in a Bill. I think it would be therefore wise to await such information before hastening to a decision that might afterwards be stultified. — I am, &c, F. A. Monckton.
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 83, 17 January 1889, Page 2
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