SHARP EXCHANGE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 94, 14 February 1947, Page 5

SHARP EXCHANGE

INCIDENT AT MEETING HOSPITAL BOARD EXPENDITURE Something approaching a breeze occurred at the meeting of the Whakatane Hospital Board yesterday when Mr H. C. McCready came into sharp.collision with the chairman (Mr J. Mullins) on the question of increased building accommodation at the hospital. Mr McCready described as a wilful waste of money the building scheme recently completed by the Board, and declared that he had submitted comparative figures to the Board, which had refused to be interested. Members had signed the contracts for the new buildings, and there had been nothing right with them since. They would be a pack of lunatics to go into another such scheme at the present time. . His concluding remarks, the speaker addressed to Mr Buddie who was sitting at the end of the table.

Mr Buddie: Don’t glare at me. I’m not to blame.

The chairman: I must ask you to address your remarks to the chair! Mr McCready: I’m talking to Mr Buddie and if I want to talk to you IT use a pa'ir of specs! Mr Buddie raised a point of order. Mr McCready stood his . ground and an altercation ensued. The chairman: I don’t want this to develop into a ‘donny-brook.’ I must ask Mr McCready to make his statements to the chair and to strive for co-operation with other members of the Board.

Mr McCready: I’m only telling you how I intend fighting this issue all the way. If we should have a nurses training school then let us face up to the matter squarely even if -it means dismissals.

The chairman: The representative of the Nurses and Midwives Registration Board will be here within a day or two and we can discuss the whole matter then. The incident then closed.