TUAPEKA HOSPITAL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 210, 8 February 1872, Page 5

TUAPEKA HOSPITAL.

.A special meeting of the Committee of theFuapeka Hospital was held on Tuesday eveiing, to open the applications for the situtions of Wardsman "and Matron for thenstitution. There were present, Mr. Harop, in the chair, and Messrs. Hears, Water, Humphrey, Ferguson, M'Swiney^Vrthur, and Dr. Halley. Dr. Stewart was also present. The applications, nurroering seven in all, were read, as also were the various testimonials of each ,candflate. The following is a list of the appliants : — Trainer and wife, Dnnedin ; M'Qdllan and wife, Dunstan ; Bathgate and vtfe, Oumaru ; Slater and wife, Tnapeka P. M' Ivay and wife, Invercargill ; J. W James and wife, Dunedin ; Joseph Hoopr and wife, Dunedin. Of the seven appliants, the Committee considered that Trainer and M'Quillan were the most suitable, owing 'to their larger experieice of hospital work. Mr Hears proposed, and Mr.. Humphrey seconded, " That the application of Hi^h Trainer be accepted, contingent upon inquiries to be made by Mr. Bastings \hile in Dune'liu proving satisfactory." In supporting the proposition, Mr. Hears slid that the fact of Mr. Trainer having teen a wardsman in the Dunedin Hospital since 1867, and receiving such an esxsel'eut character from the House Steward, vas a sufficient guarantee that he would ke well adapted for the situation, Hit wife, also, having been laundress to tie same hospital for eighteen months, wa an additional recommenda- . tion. The motim was carried nem. con. Mr. Bastngs has been requested to make enqmr.es of Drs.Hnlme and Yates as to Trainees qualifications (as there was no testimonial from either of those gentlemen), and if satisfactory, the situation will be given t* him ; if not, M'Quillan wilj. receive thy appointment. This closed the proceedings.