THE HOSPITAL.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 630, 3 June 1876, Page 3

THE HOSPITAL.

Sir, — I presume the object in choosing th« locality in which the proposed hospital shall bo titablikhed, vrill be the convenience of the many not the advantage which may accrue to any par* licular township in having it located in it* n>id&t. Looking at the us at Lor from this, the only fair and utilitarian point of view, I for ono must protest ngninst Ngaruawahia as tho choice.. Iho people of that district are right enough to pet it there if they oan, and so would the tcl* tiers beie be equally right if they thought by any petitioning they would get it established at Ohaupo. They know, of course, that this would be sheer nonsense and to, I say, let us make a virtue of nocessity, be honest, »nd go ia for tho place boil suited to tho greatest number, and thai place undoubtedly ia llnmilton. Hamilton is nearer to Cambridge and Pukeritnu by water than Nsjiruawal.ia. Fioin this settlement wo •hould have to go by laud before we got to the rirer, quite as far as direct in to Hamilton, and by a worse road. Tha settler* all around Ohaupo ! mid beyond in the direction of To Awamutu and Kilukihi, would be ia much the san.e plight. Besides there i* not always a daily steamer oither at Cambridge or Alexandra — it ha« never got nearer the lattor plaoo than Te Eoro all through the summer— find a man might ho at that placo two days befor ehe could get by water to Kg iruawahia, and iv rough weather and when the rivers are flooded even longer. Certainly, if wo are to have a hoipital let vi have it where it will be moat generally useful, aud let no other consideration enter into the matter — I urn, <Lo, JM. Ohaupo, June lat, 1876.