AUCKLAND HOSPITAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 278, 24 November 1898, Page 2

AUCKLAND HOSPITAL.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—ln answer to questions -asked of me by 'Observer' in your last -ni^Kt's }s. ' sue, I may say that in a former> letter I invited 'Observer* to call on me, ■ ana I would give him all information he wlshed by showing him the records ana work* ■ ing of Auckland Hospital and Charitable Ala Board. But he has again rugbiSinto print. ■■■■■.■■:■■■ He asks me if the Hospital- floes not cost more for working now than it aft 10 years ago. * Answer^Has not the popu. lation increased in the last ten years,'and ;i are we not bound to Improve as tlm« goes' on? • j The next question isa puzzler, I .;,';;■ consulted Johnson, Webster, Walker, anfll Worcester, but cannot find the word, he uses~disengenuous~therefore I ; cajj.not answer that question. , With regard to the Costley Wards no(i being wanted, allow me to inform ■•0b- .' server' that during the last fever gea, sons the wards were overcrowded, and a, large marquee had to be engaged; ton, • the patients. " ; -;'; ;>;; Next.the nurses who atend to the jjre, sent children's ward in the main Jibspital, will be transferred to tba new,, ' Costley wards, with perhaps two extra. "."', 'Observer' thinks that the late Mr"S?Costley left his money to relieve the" ratepayers. Not so, sir; it was left.ta/benefit the sick and in need. You iaiist ' be very selfish to think Mr Costley -left.' his money to relieve you, Mr 'Ob?ervsr,V as a ratepayer. . I am sorry I cannot give 'Observer any information about the dance that kept him awake all night, as I was notf there, but if he had taken the precaution to provide a little decoction to clea.r" : the nasty bile away no floubt that would have enabled him to; sleep. Last, I am always . open .to. 1 learn, but not from mis-statements. I , have neither time nor inclination "to finv ther correspond in this matter with one who is ashamed to sign his name,—!; am, etc., v JAMBS STICHBURY,i; ; :