A VALUABLE OFFICIAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7319, 12 June 1902, Page 2

A VALUABLE OFFICIAL.

It will surprise the general public as much 03 it must havo niombt-rs ol the Palmerston Hospital and Chnri'a'elo Aid Board to learn that Mr AY. Iluther.'urJ, Secretary to the Board, lendsred his resignation of tho position to-day. It was not iho Hospital work that Mr Rutherfurd found burdensome, but tho labor involved in the administration of charitable aid, and the Donrd promptly aud sensiblo met the difficulty by decid. ing to tirrango for SL-p.rato ciiftritable "id administration. The members spoke in tbo highest terms of the work accomplished by Mr Ruihevf.-.i-d since tho inception of the Hoard, in fact no greater tribute c.uld be. award-d toon official than ho received at tho hands of thoso ho has worked with, and wo aro paying no idle compliment when we say' Mr l.utherfiird deserved it all. Thenare few who know tho immense amount of work Mr Kuthcrfurd has performed in carrying out hie duties, the ability, industry and painstaking minutene. . with which ho has iaccomplished iho task allotted to him. or the enormous saving to tho ratepayers he has effected by the exercise oi those faculties of economical ..dinini-lration with which ho is speciully endowed, but those who do can bear iribido to his great value as r. public servant. Wo happen to havo come idea of what ho does, and v.-c s.v emphatically that the Board are acting wuh great wisdom in retaining the services of one of the best local body officials in the colony.