The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3752, 5 March 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1891.

The Auckland Hospital Commission has been a pie—a mud pie—in which that exceedingly able political manager, Mr W. L. Bees, has had a big finger. A certain nurse brought certain charges against the medical officer of the institution, and a commission was appointed to duly inquire into them. The nurse was represented in the inquiry by Mr W. L. Bees, but this eminent counsel disapproved of the gentlemen appointed to conduct the inquiry, and the present Government administered a happy despatch to the Commissioners, and set up a second commission which possibly satisfied the requirements of their supporter, It is unusual for a counsel engaged in a case to bring about a change of this kind, but Mr Bees pleaded first of all that he did not expect to be paid by the nurse for his services, secondly that he was member for Auckland as well as a lawyer, and lastly that he was a citizen of New Zealand. The fact that he is a citizen of New Zealand covers no doubt the whole ground, but the still more potent fact that he is Mr W. L. Bees made further explanation unnecessary. In the course of the inquiry it was sug- j gested to the Commissioners that it would be a very proper procedure for | them to recommend the Government ! to pay the expenses of the legal patriots, who had jytq bono publico taken up the affair.' The only point the public will now be curious about is whether the Government will pay Mr Bees for his services, either as lawyer, member for Auckland, or citizen of New Zealand. Eyerybody knows that the management of the Auckland Hospital ba.s beep indifferent, and the repqrt just presented tells no new thing. When Parliament re-assembles we shall probably hear what the cost of the inquiry has amounted to, and the eyes of taxpayers will be opened. Auckland is a community where the democrats are in power, and where as a natural tequencp certain institutions which they control ara nofr managed quite so well as they might be." If the money spent on Commissioners had been devoted to securing the additional medical assistance necessary to make the Hospital efficient it would have been naofrs wisely expended.

Sib Geobge Grey's re-entrance to the political arena is "a Fword of Damocles" to Ministers. However, they put a good fece on the matter and even the Lyitleton T'wed says it is only sorry for the sake of Sir Georgp himself and for the tender regard it has for his health. Politicians do pot usually worry about the hcaltlj of those who are likely to servo their purpose, and after all the LytteUon Times ought to know that Sir George

is very like the London cab horse, and has a tendency to drop down when he goes out of harness. Frequently when he has been ailing the delivery of a lively stump speech has acted on the old knight like a tonic, and done him more good than all the doctors in the world. Sir Georgo's health will not suffer from a moderate attendance in Parliament. The real sufferers < from the return of the veteran are the Ministers.

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