RESIGNED FROM BOARD

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 98, 19 January 1933, Page 3

RESIGNED FROM BOARD

Hospital Member’s Protest PLIGHT OF UNEMPLOYED By Telegraph.—Press Association. Westport, Jan. 17. Mrs. Foreman, daughter of Mr. 11. E. Holland, Leader of the Opposition, a member of the Buller Hospital Board, tendered her resignation this evening. “I am taking this course,” said Mrs. Foreman, “as a protest against the refusal of the Government to make adequate provision for the families of unemployed and also as a protest against the Government’s refusal to permit hospital boards to afford relief in cases of distress arising out of unemployment. When the hospital subsidies were cut down the Government declared that relief hitherto given by hospital boards in cases of distress caused by unemployment would be provided by the Unemployment Board, but that undertaking has been consistently and flagrantly dishonoured as well as a promise that no one would be left in want. “I take this extreme course with the deepest regret and oqly because of conviction that in this way I may possibly do more ultimately to secure a measure of relief for the more distressful cases among the families of unemployed than I could hope to do by remaining on the board.”