PRESENTATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 111, 18 August 1910, Page 4

PRESENTATION.

,- HOSPITAL BOARD TO DR. LEATHAM. '. At the hospital yesterday afternoon 5 Mr. F. C. Bellringer, on behalf of the i Board, presented Dr. Leatham with a ,j framed photograph of the old hospital board, the new board, medical staff, and ' matron in charge of the institution. 'l In making the presentation, Mr. Bell- ' ringer said that the members of to* Board had had to say an official goodbye to Dr. Leatham as medical superinl tendent, and they felt they couki not ' allow the incident to pasß without put- - liting into some tangible form their appreciation of the great services he had f rendered to the Board and the'insti- - tutions under its control. In deciding •upon the nature of the token they had ''adopted one which would carry the re- • cipient's memory back to the term of his •! appointment. It was quite impossible > to adequately express their satisfaction I, with and high appreciation of his work, >'They realised that Dr. Leattmm had .'[made it, to a large extent, a labour of 'love and keenness in his profession and care for suffering humanity. The photofj graphs were enclosed in frames of the >., puriri timber from the old amt historic ■jWaiwakaiho bridge, made by Mr. Sand--5 j ford, woodwork instructor of,ths, tech- " i nical school, to whom they were inl, debted for his kindness. ! ! Dr. Leatham thanked the Board for 1 the honour conferred by thus assembling '| to meet him, for the chairman's kind 1 expressions of opinion, and for their " present of a memento of his long and ! happy relations with the Board. The ' institution had been his first considera- ' tion for a great many years, and in sev- ' ering his connection with it he had felt ; that the time had arrived for giving . the younger members of the profession I an opportunity to put their ideas into practice, and of assuming the responsibility of management. The responsibility was very heavy, but the burden had been made easy for him by the assistance of the Board members, who had always been most ready to aid him in furthering the work of the institution. He tod also been most ably assisted by the matron, Miss Browne, and the nurses, to whom she had always set a high standard of efficiency and of right and of loyalty to the institution and to themselves. The Board had a great deal to thank the nursing etaff for. Dr. Leatham added a tribute to the work of Dr. Walker. He said he would always have most pleasant recollections of his association with- the hospital board and with this hospital He was pleased to have been appointed to the post of radiographer, which gave him some status and enabled him to visit the institution occasionally. The chairman then presented the I matron with a second picture, a facsimile of the first, to be lung in the institution.