Wanganui Hospital Scandal

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 29, 3 August 1893, Page 2

Wanganui Hospital Scandal

The usual monthly meeting of the Wanganui Hospital Board was held yesterday. Mr Parson i (chairman) read the report of a meeting between the executive members of the Board (Messrs Lifiiton, Ritchie, and himself) and Dr McGregor, on the occasion of that gentleman's visit of investigation. Dr McGregor stated he did not consider there was any evidence against the girl, excepting her own admission ; that he was returning to Wellington the next morning and would report to the Minister. Mr Parsons would not take up the time of the members by referring at length to the different articles which had appeared in the press of late, as he felt they had been chiefly aimed at himself, and he would accept the responsibility, There was a matter, however, on which he felt deeply, and that was that some persons had sent dirty and disgusting anonymous letters to his wife, and he thought people must have descended very low when they resorted to such a practice in an effort to destroy the peace of a man's home. | Hear, hoar. | Mr Laird said the whole matter was most unpleasant. Mr Parsons said that if he went fullj into the matter of the letters in question, he should give some very strong opinions concerning the people connected with them, commencing with the Reverend gentlemen interested in them, because some of the statements made by them were not in keeping with fact. The letters had been stolen from a letter case at an hotel in Feilding, and they had never reached the person for whom they were intended, and the whole matter in connection with them was a dirty piece of business. Mr Lifh'ton said he should like the country members to express their opinion as to the action of the town members in the matter. Mr Lethbridge said country members had already, by a resolution at a previous meeting, expressed full confidence in their executive officers.