Hospital Board

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 136, 10 May 1890, Page 4

Hospital Board

The usual: monthly, meeting, of the -Hospital Board ; was held- after ; the able. Aid business had ; beep disposed of . Present — Messrs Ark.right f (chairman), Smith, Lii&tpn^ Parsons, Ueuiirigton,; Peat J and Dr ikionck.ton. New Wabj?. -f- Tlie , : r instructed to get prices for the furniture fat '-'' ( ib.&- nfew Tpardi Resolved, 'That d fiie offer^of pr jMonqkton to - allow the Board to' 'manufacture two of hif. ; pate lit beads teads free from -■^royaltyjjl'i'and thati he- be. thanked ■for the .same j % alsp^ that, the bedsteada be obtained : «ul)jec( to. fhe" 'Doctor's -approtsal. It, '^as : , to. leave rthe utatter of^-i'iirniture" for^'the new 1 • ward to the Ch'airdan. : : • SEPjAEATiptf.— Mr, .Arkwright, rpse "'to mqy.e, the , resolution pf ■ wliicb -h© i had given notice, :aßtotbe: separation »--of the Wan ganui . Hospital .District. .In dosn^s6 ! W^nefi^\sji6^:tpthe , say ing 'th at ' as the ' people tßOUfch M the >Ea'ngitikei ? hakivevidetitly made Jupitheir mlods to get' the separ- • atiou 4fe had' g^one into- 'the matter, with tfce^Wult'tbat lie had altered his > opiaion, and was' now in favour -of. Be^aratian.,.-Mmßelf. -He thought • that i^the Board carried his resolution >it would; haye theefEect of the Colonial -Secretary taking notice of it, and the '■district ..would;- j-be separated. The boundarjy of the £ new district being .-south of the iiangitikei river. [Dr Moncktpn :. '^And Feilding the centre •of the^?tncyiO/-Mr - Peat said he vwould j.qcpnd-j the, motion provided the Turnover agreed to amend it by the ad•dition of the following words : " And : that ait the 7 present endowments in the < town X>s i Wanganui 'and suburbs of r the be ' reserved, f or • the V benefit df the Wanganui Hospital." — "Mr Arkwrigbt agreed- td tkis, and -altered his motion to read as follows : - " That~itiß~desifable that the Hospital : District be divided, and ' that a fresh • 'district bV constituted in the country -south of Eaugitikei river, provided all the e'ndowtnentß ■in the; town and i suburbsriofLV\ianganui be reserved for •■ the benefit of the Wanganui Hospital. --: — Secpndediby^eat and carried. ' Secretary's Boxd. — ilesolved, That ■•■ the Secretary, provide a bond of £200, • and mat the /Board pay the premium ifor samel T „ ;, ..'.'. The^Bbard then adjourned.