HOSPITAL SECRETARY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 163, 28 July 1937, Page 5

HOSPITAL SECRETARY

-Press Associatxon.)

Position Not Filled According to Regulations

(By Telssraph-

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. When the present secretary of the North Canterbury Hospital Board, Mr W. S. Whartoiit announced- that he tvished to retire at the end of this year the board decided to appoint Mr W. A. Gudgeon, its accountaat, to the position, reviewing the appointment after six months. At the time of the decision the board' s finance committee expressed the opinion that the position should be advertised. This morning Mr Wharton told the board that the Department of Health, on heittg notified of the mahner of the appointment, had asked whether the board wished exem.ption from the regulation which provided that important positions on a hospital staff should be advertised. Mr Wharton wrote amplifying his first letter and asking for exemption to cover the case. In reply the department recommended that the board should reconsider the appointment and advertise the position in the regulation way. With a body responsible for such wide organisation as the North Canterbury Hospital Board, said the letter, it was absolutely necessary to be sure that the best man available secured the position. It was quite possible that Mr Gudgeon was tho best man available, but the board could not be certain unless the position were advertised. It was decided to adverfcis© the poBition.