HOSPITAL BOARDS’ ASSOCIATION

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29263, 22 July 1960, Page 14

HOSPITAL BOARDS’ ASSOCIATION

Southland Body To Withdraw (New Zealand Press Association) INVERCARGILL, July 21. The Southland Hospital Board is to withdraw from the New Zealand Hospital Boards’ Association. Notice of this was given at a meeting of the board in Invercargill today. This step will be taken because the association's executive has changed the venue of its 1961 biennial conference from Invercargill to Dunedin, thereby overruling a decision of the last conference which was held in Napier.

The association’s reason for the change of venue was that Invercargill could not provide sufficient accommodation for the conference. Board members told today’s meetings that the Invercargill Licensing Trust had guaranteed accommodation for 400 delegates. Today’s meeting approved a recommendation passed at a recent meeting of the board’s executive committee, “that in view of the fact that the national executive has over-ridden the decision of conference, the board has no confidence in the executive and that the board therefore gives 12 months’ notice of its intention to withdraw from the association.”