HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10660, 15 June 1912, Page 5

HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT

RECENT CRITICISM. PABMTUA COMMITTEE'S POST i TiON. "I don't 1 know whether anv member of tbe' committee got a marked loopy of la ' Master ton paper .ecntdning a report of a discussion at the last meeing of the jWairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board," said Mr G. G. Taylor, at the. meeting of ~ the Pahiauta Hospital Committee ij£st:&rday. Mr Taylor said lie had received a copy, and he would like to know whether other members of the Committee had received, copies. The chairman said he had, ndt received one. ' " •' , Mr v Taylor added that the Bbard had ,turned the committee down as though they were a lot of silly children. He proceeded 'to produce copies of the ,Waira ( rapa Age. and the ,Pahiat"iai Herald. The secretary read the report which ■appeared in the Age in reply to certain orrtjicisims >pia6sed by members of the lOamimAßtee. Mr Boltoa said t!he Board was composed of 18 members, of whom only three tlie Itahiatua district. He pointed out th'at the local •repsresentaitives on the Board always enquired intio every dtJlm that . came .before the .Boatd. The chairman held tltot the Committee, being the . nomuieeis of the .Board, hod no right-to criticise the /financial arrangements, of the 'Board, and said be 'had' always endeavoured to exoleude -such criticism. The contributing local bodies, asi representing the ratepayers, could make- representations on; ,the ,iMai'i!t.e''r if they felt aggrieved, but be .contended that it was not within provfc.'ce cf the Com•mdtltee to do so,. He pointed out that tlie Boaird had always approved cf the'estimaites of the lOommittee. QVDr '\V. W. 'McOardle agreed with /the cbairman. Mr H. Cornelius (said fifteen .local bodies were represented on, the Board. He ibelieved that the meinbers honestly endeaivoured to keep down the expenditure. The increase in the amount of Ithe annual! levies had icome on the local bodies -suddenly, causing ia< nlumber of them to make protests. The P'ahiatu'a< -""minty, for instance, 'had iliad its contribution increased by £3OO. Mr Cornelius said the local ■representiati'ves on the Bciaid ,had gone ifrJtiO every atom sepa'raltely. He pointed out that certain expenditure av&s . endered mecessary by the creation: of tbe districv rjuirses' scheme, iUiei .ejection of new,offices, and tbe home Ifor ancwrables. Although the expenditure wtt'S" (heavy this ji,e believed .they, would gain 'by it. The eubjoct then dropped,— Herald.