HOSPITAL BOARD

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26199, 24 August 1950, Page 3

HOSPITAL BOARD

EVENING MEETINGS SUGGESTED

PLAN TO ATTRACT NEW MEMBERS ?i? ldi £ g its meetings in the evenRnarrt the Canterbury Hospital ?eedert C to ld attrac ? J ll6 type O 1 P e ?son tp u . n wha t was the largest BrnwSl “ . the city - said Mr J J vester Jav a .\ a mee ? ng of the board a•• £ K “9 1 a matter for the next board, he replied to other memth« S r. SUSSestil i ns ’ “ H we leav e the matter of <mr ?vn° a b d ."J, 11 oniy have members toe ’ but change the meetmg times we might get better mem-

r<J0 e < eting tim es bad been fixed te suit country members in the days when Mr y nr ame i to tol ? n by borse and traps, Wn L ee L, said ’ but conditions had and thought that country j£2* bers could attend evening meetThe chairman (Mr V. C. Lawn) had of I d?r e tn t r ed pubUc on the number and d bO won ? en the board, to d s a v e o^?£ ownlee) had something semFrotSSS 1 the nu mber of retired or ttoi J? d Parsons. Both were get“h JL/b *? u J h the sa me thing—that needld h F a A e » d businessmen” were £m d SL= present such men could not spare the time. c„„w PP °?l il ?? Mr Brownlee, Mr A. J. Whe, J- he was at board had me , et ‘ngs his partner had,to do the work of two men. “ would be impossible for country t 0 gl Y e the time to hospital committee meetings which lasted five Saund°emoe“ eS S ‘ X h ° UrS ’ Said Mr H ’

™,JL very< ! n ? bnows that there is too much work for the hospital committee,” Mr Brownlee replied. “It must be reorganised, perhaps by terming a separHospitS™ 1 " 66 tQ deal With Bu rwood Mrs G. M. Boyd objected to evening meetings because of the extra work to T.JB e secretary and the staff. They might not be a bad idea,” Mrs T. Green said. “Perhaps if we had meetings at night people would not be so anxious to talk nonsense and we would get on with the business.” . The Wellington board had meetings m the evenings, but it did not have many country members, said Mr Lawn. He was not sure that the clerical work could be dene so expeditiously if meetings took place in the evenings. He thought it was a matter for a new board.

He was not asking for a decision, but aS a ,j ejection was approaching he would like members to consider his proposal, said Mr Brownlee. He added that the City Council met in the evenings and held committee meetings in the late afternoon. [The board meets at 10.30 a.m. on the fourth Wednesday of every month, and meetings seldom conclude before 1 p.m. All ordinary committee meetings are also held during day time.]