ANSWER TO “RATEPAYER.”
To the Editor of the “Timaru Herald.” Sir,—Your correspondent "Katopajer,” with his evident bias against the Rev. T. W. Potts, might well allow hospital matters to rest. His letter this morning adds nothing to what has been said before, and said
without calling forth any expression of satisfaction on the part of the public. Speak to those who have been patients in the Timaru hospital ancl 99 per cent, of them will express their entire satisfaction wuth the treatment received therein by doctors and nurses. The electors of Timaru who have knowledge of the great improvements in the ma.nagement of the hospital in recent years, have expressed their conlldence in Mr Potts, and thereby in the policy of the Poartl generally, by returning him at the head of the poll—a position he has never previously occupied. That is the public’s answer to the carping criticism that has been directed against him. It is significant that one of the Citizens’ Associations, to which the charges against the Hospital Board’s policy were sent, adopted Mr PoUs as one of its candidates. If there is any desire for a change of policy on the part of the Board, what signs are there throughout South Canterbury, of such a desire —save on the part of an interested few? The hospital is a democratic institution, and is not managed by a company of autocrats and responsible to nobody. Let those w'no want a change come forward with their candidates. The fact that no candidates have a-i reared advocating a reversal of policy, and a return to a policy that was tried before, is i’airiy conclusive evidence that the public generally are well satisfied with the Board's policy. “Ratepayer” suggests that .Mr Potts is the Hospital Board —the other members simply saying ditto to his ipse dixit. They who know the character and temperament of some members of the Board will recognise at once the absurdity of this view. Let the Board go on as it is doing and it will find behind it the confidence and support of a l’air-iumded public.—l am, etc. OBSERVER.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 14 May 1925, Page 3
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352ANSWER TO “RATEPAYER.” Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 14 May 1925, Page 3
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