The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and the Morning News. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1875.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1590, 17 March 1875, Page 2

The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and the Morning News.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1875.

For the cause that l:\cre? assistr.nce, lor the wrong t*,at needs resistance, Psr th-a future in the distance.lad tun good that we ca.u do.

We never oo read a leading article unless our attention has been called to it as containing something deserving of attention ; and newspaper correspondence we shim like the plague. But we have been told that articles and letters have been hurled at the public, urging delay and alteration of plans in connection with the new Hospital building. We have no doubt the arguments are sound and conclusive ; at least, we arc not aware of anything to the contrary ; but we see in them dimly looming out a repetition of the history of the Slaughter-house. It is possible that the cottage and detached system 'is better for invalids and convalescents, than the placing of one Wftrd en. the top of another. Indeed we believe it is better, but the time fcr considering that was somo year 3 ago—when the plans were first sub mitted, and the profession and the laity were alike invited to express their views. We hold that the controversy is now closed, or ought to be ; and we trust that the good old fable of the old man and his ass, applied so appropriately by the Provincial Treasurer to the Slaughter-house question, will be rigidly applied to this ; for we may depend upon it that if we go on and try to please everybody We shall please nobody, and probably Under the absorbing power of centralism lose our Hospital into the bargain. The Provincial Government have acted firmly in the matter of the Slaughter-! ou?e, and we hope, as we are confident from knowledge of some of the stuff of which it is composed that the Building Commission will do the same. Now that the subject is raised, people would go on talking till the crack of doom, and we would recommend that the Commissioners should take some effective nxtans of intimating to disputationists that they may aa well keep their wind for usefuller purposes. One sage, we are told, ad-vi-ea that the medical staff that reported on and recommended the adoption of the preseut plans should be summoned together again, not considering that the hand of death has prevented the possibility. However the squabble of upstairs versus downstairs in hospital economy has been as old as hospitals, and will continue till hospitals are not wanted. Meantime leaving Medicos to their theories, we want an Hospital ; and we sincerely trust that irrespective of the clatter, the building as planned and accepted will be pushed onward to completion with the utmost expedition.