HOSPITAL CONTROL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 68, 21 March 1935, Page 17

HOSPITAL CONTROL.

CITY BOARDS CRITICISED. PROTEST AT STRATFORD. (By Telegraph.—l*ress Association.) STRATFORD, Tuesday. Ail allegation that the New Zealand Hospital Boards' Association was ruled by the city boards and that the smaller boards received scant consideration at the annual conferences was made by Mr. T. R. Anderson, who represented tiie Stratford Hospital Board at the recent conference at Napier. Reporting to the board, Mr. Anderson said it seemed the small boards, such as Stratford, were expected to support everything the city boards brought forward, but the latter gave no support to remits from the smaller bodies. It appeared the political influence of the country boards was being exploited without any return being made. Mr. Anderson said he left the conference before the conclusion because there seemed no chance of getting remits satisfactorily . dealt with. Mr. J. Cormiek said the association wte merely for the benefit of the large boards. He inpved that the Stratford Board should resign from the association as a protest. If the other boards followed that lead, they might get a fairer deal. The chairman, Mr. W. L. Kennedy, agreed that the position was unsatisfactory, but thought resignation would be J unwise. The trouble was that the small boards did not pull together.

Other members agreed that the position was unsatisfactory, but after » long discussion the motion was lost.