MR COYLE RESIGNS

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12620, 3 December 1926, Page 7

MR COYLE RESIGNS

HOSPITAL BOARD SECRETARY APPRECIATIVE REFERENCES TRIBUTE FROM MEMBERS Any doubt which might have been entertained that Mr J. Coyle would leave Wellington to take up his position as secretary to the Newcastle Hospital Board was dispelled yesterday, when members of the Wellington Hospital Board joined in general expressions of regret that Mr Coyle had decided to leave. He was described as a most efficient and able secretary, and one member declared that the Newcastle Board had known what they were about when they secured his services. The chairman of the board (Mr C. M. Luke) said Mr Coyle had received a letter from the board at Newcastle, and it. was this positipn which the board had been called together to discuss. He personally would experience a wrench, and would suffer disappointment when Mr Coyle left the service of the board. He had been chairman of the board when Mr Coyle was appointed, and since the date of his appointment lie had acquired a thorough grip of hospital affairs here, and had. made his impression upon both the board and upon the community. If it. was a question of duty with Mr Coyle, then duty would be done. Early and late he worked, and had grown to understand the requirements of the institution. It was evident from, the offer that he had received from Newcastle that this board could not enter into competition so far as salary was concerned. At the same time members of the board would have no desire tn stand in liis way to advancement and his right to achieve the highest position that it was possible for him to occupy. “UNTIRING SERVICES” The Rev. Van Staveren said he could faithfully bear testimony. to every word uttered by the chairman. He did not say the board would not get a man like him, but anyone with whom he had come in contact could not hut eulogise the untiring services which Mr Coyle had given to the board. The expression of appreciation must have been some slight solace to Mr Coyle, who could now say: “I have done my duty. Everyone can see that I have done it. Now let someone else come in and follow me in the same direction.” Rev. Dr. Elliott suggested that the appreciation which the board felt for

Mr Coyle should be placed on record. It would, he said, make a document historic in the chronicles of the institution. Mr G. Petherick spoke as chairman of the social welfare committee of the board and said any information required of him had been supplied by Mr Coyle with the greatest courtesy. MAN .OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE Mr D. Campbell said the Newcastle Board was gpttinga, man of experience and knowledge. They had made no mistake when they had chosen him out of 122 applicants for the position. Mrs MeVicar and Mrs Fraser also paid their tribute to the services of Mr Coyle, while Messrs J. H. Helliwell, Rev. Lochore, C. E. Robinson, F. Bennett, and W. Appleton added words of appreciation. Dr. Wilson, medical superintendent, advanced an appreciation from the medical staff at the institution, and said the associations of the secretary with the inside staff had been of the happiest. The resignation was accepted with regret, the board decided to grant Mr Coyle three months’ salary as an appreciation, and a committee was set up to draft an appropriate resolution thanking him for his services. Mr Richard Brown, accountant to the board, was appointed secretary in the meantime.