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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 246, 27 September 1884, Page 2

We commend the following to all whom it may concern. It is especially interesting in view of what was telegraphed from Napier on Tuesday : —• The Under-Secretary of the Colony’ has been pleased to disallow the Daily Telegraph’s account against the Hospital Board for printing and advertising, the amount being /jit 13s. 6d. The Under-Secretary writes:—No authority was sought for' the expenditure. An irresponsible Board, whose existence is not known to any law, has no right to expend moneys without even asking the permission of persons really responsible for the control and administration of the public revenues." Mr. G. S. Cooper is undoubtedly right; the account was not for maintenance, and we presume it was owing to the ignorance of the secretary it was sent down for payment. The solicitors to the Board, Messrs. Wilson and Cotterill, inserted the advertisement, and it remained in the paper for twenty issues. If it was not the solicitors’ business, nor the secto control the number of insertions, it was nothing to us whether it remained in for a year; and it is further nothing to us whether the Government pays the account or not, members of the “irresponsible Board” being individually liable.