TROUBLE BREWING.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1057, 21 February 1911, Page 6

TROUBLE BREWING.

TIIE HOSPITAL- BOARD STAFF. It is by no means improbable that r.t to-day's meeting of the Wellington Hospital Board somo reference will be made to the present relations of the members of the administrative staff to each other, officially speaking. It will be remembered that in July last the Hospital Board adopted a scheme embodying tlio reorganisation of tho administrative staff, and in separate and distinct paragraphsset out tho sphere of authority and schedule of duties of each member of that staff. For instance, tho secretary, described as tho "chief executive officer," was held to be "directly responsible to tho board for: (a) The successful'carrying out of the duties of all the other officers of tho board (excepting" those carried out under the jurisdiction of tho medical superintendent); (b) the conduct and keeping minutes of all meetings of tho board, committee, and sub-committee (excepting sitcii committees and subcommittees as in respect of which the chairman may approve of his delegating such duty to some other officer); (c) all tho correspondence of the board, subject to tho superintendence of the chairman of tho board and chairman of the mittecs; (d) and the general finances of tho board, tho compiling of estimates, apportionment, subsidies,' statistics, and annual returns for tho department." . Tho foregoing would appear to be precise enough to safeguard" the secretary's authority as "chief executive officer." liut tliero is every reason to believe that it has not done so; that tho secretary is unable to exercise his full- authority because the members of his executive staff are, apparently, not disposed to concede him that authority. Tho result," it" is stated, is that there is now a conspicuous lack of sympathy among some of the officers of the board. <