WAIKATO HOSPITAL BOARD.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 143, 19 June 1899, Page 6

WAIKATO HOSPITAL BOARD.

The Waikato Hospital Board met at the Council Chambers, Hamilton, on Thursday.

The police having reported the case of an old man named McQrain, un old age pensioner of JN'garuawhia, who was laid up in bed without anyone to take charge of him, the Board decided to pay an old man 5/ a week to attend to the sufferer.

The Orphan Home authorities wrote explaining that they drew no subsidy whatever from the Government towards the support of the inmates of the institution. The Board, after some consideration, agreed to contribute the same amount as the Auckland Board, £2/10, towards the outfit, of any child leaving the Home.

The Secretary was requested to supply the Registrar of Pensions with information as to the number of pensions granted to men previously a charge upon the Board's finances and the saving thereby affected by the Board.

Accounts amounting to £ 426:'» were passed for payment. The Secretary reported that Jos. Maxwell, an old man who refused to remain in the Refuge, had been committed to Mount Eden Gaol for three months on a charge of having no visible means of support.

Notice of motion was given to correct an error made in the allocation of the local body contributions, by which the Raglan County share will be reduced by £46, and this amount distributed among the other contributing bodies.