HOSPITAL COMMITTEE ELECTION.

Kumara Times, Issue 2608, 15 January 1885, Page 3

HOSPITAL COMMITTEE ELECTION.

[to the editor.] Sir—For the benefit of all concerned a printed list of subscribers or voters should be published or obtainable at once. The last election of Hospital Committee was notoriously open to question—not enough voting papers, misspelling and misdirecting, and no scrutiny or check to prevent people voting at each place. I did not like to see the Mayor jibbing at our getting revised lists and few knew better than himself that ihe meeting of subscribers was in reality a meeting of everybody who liked to come; and yet he apparently wanted the pluck to suggest that those present who had not qualified could do so or leave.—Yours faithfully, Observer. [to the editor.] Sir I have been well abused, wounded, and insulted, and have hitherto trusted to publicity and that inherent sense of justice in British that is seldom appealed to iu vain./ Though no blame could be attached to me in performing the professional duties I was engaged for, and though I brought

a large family, furnished a house, obtained an expensive stock to meet the requirements of the practice, yet if I had not . received letters of confidence f om each society and known that the respectable and educated portion of the Committee also accorded me its confidence, I should have resigned rather than put up with the perpetual annoyance of Mr Burger, who I informed some months ago in the presence of Messrs Nicholas and Eudkin, was the most mischievous man on the Committee. I now write to say that whether I go or stop, whether the subscribers elect miners or tradesmen, or both, I believe the interests of the "hospital and its staff will be properly protected all the more if the troublesome man with the axe to grind and the spite to serve is kept out of it.—l remain, yours, &c, F. A. Moncktojj, Surgeon and Subscriber. January 15, 1884.