HOSPITAL PROCEEDINGS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2693, 9 May 1885, Page 2

HOSPITAL PROCEEDINGS.

[to the editor.]

Sir—The report headed " Kumara Hospital" in your issue of yesterday, May Bth, is commenced with the words " The adjourned meeting of the Hospital Committee," also the last words of the same report are " and the meeting adjourned accordingly till Tuesday evening next." This is pretty good proof that the meeting last Tuesday adjourned to Thursday and again adjourned to next Tuesday, simply two adjournments of the same meeting. Now, mark you, the chairman who ought to know how to conduct the business, moves to rescind a motion passed at the commencement of this meeting, and to make it legal he gives notice of motion in the middle of the meeting that at the end of the meeting on Tuesday next, the act, which was irregular before, is to be gone over again is just as absurd opposition to the standing rules as at first. Why, sir, if there were a New Zealand Punch he would be a laughing-stock throughout the land instead of only making the Hospital Committee ridiculous. Sir, it is high time the subscribers spoke out against the absurd aud expensive blundering of a bare majority of this Committee, who are doing all thfty can to saddle the Hospital fuuds with the extra expense of keeping two doctors for the next six mouths, and that in the face good legal advice and warning given to the Committee. Subscriber. • Kumara, May 9, 1885.

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