A SMART JOB

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 631, 6 April 1929, Page 1

A SMART JOB

“CINTRA” QUICKLY CONVERTED A TEMPORARY HOSPITAL “Within half an hour of the deciion to accommodate the men at “Cintra” being arrived at workmen were busily employed converting it into a temporary hospital,” Mr. W. Wallace, chairman of the Hospital Board, to a SUN representative this afternoon. He expected that sufficient accommodation would be available to accommodate the men at four o’clock. “Cintra,” he said, would be quite suitable for the purpose, and the seamen would receive the best treatment available. A staff of about six will be necessary to attend to the present cases. THE BOARD’S DUTY On the question of the Hospital* Board’s plain duty to provide for the stricken members of the Maui Pomare’s crew the same adequate treatment which would have to be given somehow to Auckland residents in similar plight, The Sun last evening observed editorially: “The afflicted sailors on the Maui Pomare have been denied the adequate treatment which would be nothing more than a backward country would

| give as an act of international humane- ■ ness. i “That is the outstanding notoriety of Auckland’s scandal. ... It is to be ' j hoped for the sake of the community that the Health Department and the Hospital Board wilt not waste time on arguing about their respective responsibility, but will co-operate earnestly and efficiently in providing temporarily adequate and isolated hospital accommodation for the sailors who may be dying while bewildered admin- , istrators keep on talking.^