AUCKLAND HOSPITAL TROUBLE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10645, 29 May 1912, Page 5

AUCKLAND HOSPITAL TROUBLE

JVN UNHAPPY MEETING.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, Last Night

The meeting of the Hospital and ' orarj.ta.ble Aid Board to-night was by I tto meaiiis a happy one. After "a j stormy discaitekm five members left I the meeting **s a "wote^ 1 . tain notices of moti-'"* *¥ m ®* z \ pa,par, ll on Me. b'vdfrr ! The * , ■ „. ] *.- ..rat indication of t-fofe breeze I ...as when a letter -front Mr Savwge CsurgeoVr) was read', resigning hie position on the honorary staff of the Hospital. /'lt wa.s resolved that the resignation stand over till the next meeting, land ,the seoreoary to write to Mir (Savage, asking .Hm .to reconsider the imatter, and assuring him that the Boaird would deeply regret to lose his services.

A CRAVE SITUATION.

fßy Tdegraph—Frees Association.) AUCKLAND, Last Tight. The following telegram was despatched to the .Minister in Charge of Hospitals by Dr Pabst (chairman of fhe •honorary medical staff) prior to the meeting uf the Hospital Board this evening:— "■Condition of Auckland Hospital .critical. Welfare of patients imperilled. Hon. visiting staff, senior resident'medical officer, and junior resident .medical officens, together with the sistars and certificated nurses, have urgently petitioned me to send this message, pnaymg yoiiflntervention, otherwise a deadlock is .unavoidable. Dr Fa.bst received the following reply:— l 'T hare received your -telegram, Which conveys to my mind a critical situation. J am giving the matter tmy gravest consideration, and liop? to-morrow to he able to wire you my decision in .'omicctionu with vmir request."