HOSPITAL AFFAIRS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 220, 14 August 1939, Page 3

HOSPITAL AFFAIRS

Sir, —The public is still waiting for the Hospital Board to make known its reasons for taking such extraordinary action in dismissing the Alatron and Dr. Alail.

AYe- are told that the dismissals were due to “now-cooperation”. Why dees the Board refrain from making public the acts upon which this charge is bnsedl? AA T as the Alatron given an opportunity of' defending herself? Was Dr. Mail- given an opportunity of defending himself?

.Humour has it that- the nursing staff in handing in their resignations mailk* charges against- Dr. Alail. Will tile Board toll us; if this is correct, and will it tel! us if the charges were substantiated? AA'hy not- publish the charges and Dr. Alail’s reply to them? “J FSTI Civ”. * j * HOSPITAL AFFAIRS Sir,- —As reported in the “News”, the chairman of the Hospital Board is. not averse to the publication of the facts and the evidence- he lias in connection with the trouble at the hospial. If he will publish an answer to the following.inquiries it may help the public toj arrive at- a conclusion as to the cause of the trouble. To the hoard meeting on Alay oth. did the matron report that the nursing staff requested the installation of a wireless in their sitting room before the end of Allay otherwise' their resignations would; be tendered forthwith ? Was it reso-l ved that the chairman and. Air. J. I). Clark he delegated to investigate the position and report to the Board? What was the report from the chairman and Air. J. I) Clark, and was there any trouble over the installation of a wireless set- in the nurses’ sitting room ? Did the chairman inform the Board that the matron had told him she would resign or leave the hospital if Air ——— was re-admitted to the hospit a I ? .Did the superintendent report at the meeting oil. July 7th. that Air. admitted on July Ist. left, the hospital on that day with his permission and refused to return to the hospital? Did Air. return to the hospital on Saturday July the Bth. the day

alter the .meeting of the hoard and on the Monday did-the chairman get from the staff an urgent message to go to till' hospital, and the secretary and he went to the hospital and the staff handed him a letter signed by eight of the staff, resigning in a body?

Wiil the chairman publish that !eitci ami ihe evidence later taken in writing from tin* stall’ and Dr. Alail by the Boa id? Also the report of the special meeting hold on July 1:) 11 1 . and tin.* meeting held en August 4th. and letters cf resignation from Dr. Alail and the matron received on August 4th. ! Did Air. Maxwell state at the meeting on August tin* -Itli. that hi* hail! insii acted tlie secretary to collect- all the documents and letters in connection With the inquiry in November from Air. Ai.errv and when the parcel was opened by him and the secretary that some letters which Dr. Alail had produced in November wore not in the envelopef Has lie since got those lettersf Is it- tine that a. sister was a leader of the staff in their attitude towards tin* Board and the Superintendent. ami was she previously at. three otlu r hospitals (including AVaihi) where there had been trouble f KATWI’A YU'IR. THE PUBLIC MEETING Sir.—J utiging by the haste wit h which everyone including the National Marty is socking to disassociate tlmmselves from the railway meeting, are we to assume that these responsible, and who are now being lelt in th lurch, belonged to. or are about to form, a National “left wing’ movemint‘f Personally. I load an interesting t ime. “(J M If AT ’K.ASTKjiN” PUBLIC MEETING Sir.—With regard to my letter ;n yetir issue of Wednesday last, may I. assure Air. Kiast J had no intention of easting any reflection on the local hianoli of the National Marty, as a Marty. I said the meeting was disturbed bv prominent members of the. National Marty, and as Air. Fast was among those present at- the meeting, lie knows this to he perfectly trueThere appeared to those present to he

an organised attempt, to disallow any hut' tUiiiv own .supporters to in any \rayVJ\craitess 'tluV 1 meeting, until such time as it suited them to do so. •1 .iinow-th('‘“‘mt i etTiTg""was called by tile Railway League and County Council", and although the Chairman nssuredl -us the meeting was non-politi-cal, a totally different impression was created right from the eonimencetuont of the meeting, and continued throughout. Whether the persons responsible for disturbing the meeting were members of the Railway League, the County Council, or flic National Party (and they certainly were not supporters of the Labour Party) I still maintain their conduct was no credit to whatever party they do belong, and it is to he hoped. Sir, should they attend another public meeting at some future date, tpey will at: least have tiie courtesy to allow other sneakers to address the meeting, without continually interrupting them, as they did at the last “Railway meeting”. “FAIR PLAY”.