HOSPITAL DISPUTE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 71, 10 April 1937, Page 6

HOSPITAL DISPUTE

Magisterial Inquiry Urged MONDAY'S MEETING Representatives of the New Zealan^ Labour Party and affiliated organisan tions are eager for a magisterial bw quiry into the administration of th# Napier Publie Hospital. A special meeting of the Napier Labour Repre-i sentation Committee is to be held iiv Napier at 3 o'clock to-morrow after# noon, to give consideration to th# Hawke's Bay Hospital Board's disput# and to urge the holding of & .prope# magisterial inquiry at an early dte. The Hon. W. E. Barnard, M.P., will be present at tbe. meeting, which is i# be held in committee. A statement i#. to be issued to the Press af terwardaj - however, giving details of all resoliw tions adopted. Further reference to the dismissal of ' Sister Wood, who was in charge of th# . children 's ward at the Napier Hospita^ will be made at ihe monthly meeting . of the Hawke's Bay. Hospital Board to-morrow afternoon. , ... Dr. J. Allan Berry, is to move thre# motions, one that the facts surrounding the suspension of Sister Wood be mad# ; public, ano.tber that the evidence take# , regarding the Shrimpton Ward (child* . ren's ward) inquiry does not disclos# that Dr. Berry ordered treatment t# any of Dr. A. D. S. Whyte's patients, and the third to the effect that all board members be provided witK letters and other documents relating t# the inquiry. ■' Mr C. Duff, one of the Hastingi members of the board, is to move H motion asking for an amendment to th# board's voting by-law, so that an office# of the board might be diSmissed by % b'are majority vote instead of by a 7S| per cent. majority;