"GIBED AT."

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1082, 22 March 1911, Page 4

"GIBED AT."

PUBLICITY- A REMEDY. After a brief but animated discussion the Hospital Board resolved yesterday that all future meetings of its Hospital and Charitable Aid Committees should be open to the press. Moving in this direction Mr. F. T. Moore expressed a couyiction that under conditions of publicity the administration of the board would be better and cleaner. Wherever one took up a paper now the hospital was gibed at, mainly because of what the board did in committee. Mr. Fitzgerald supported the motion. Mr. ■ M'Laren opposed it holding that to admit the press at committee meetings would mean slower work and a greater likelihood of conflict between one member of the board and another. "I don't see any need for it," concluded Mr. M'Lnren. Originally, said Mr. Van Stavoren, he had considered that members would not say to one another in open meeting tho things they said in committee, but he had found that this was not so. After some ■'further-'talk 'Mr. Moore's motion was carried by nine votes to seven. Before the meeting ended Mr. Godber gave notice of his intention to move- at next meeting that the' resolution be rescinded.