THE GOVERNMENT ACCEPT THE MAINTENANCE OF THE HOSPITAL.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3628, 27 February 1883, Page 2

THE GOVERNMENT ACCEPT THE MAINTENANCE OF THE HOSPITAL.

COMMITTEE RECOUPED FOR PAST EXPENDITURE.

Mr Sutton, M.H.R., to-day notified the Government that he, as chairman of the Hospital Board, had received no money nor replies to his repeated letters to the Colonial Secretary, and that salaries were now overdue two months, and tradesmen's accounts three months. He intimated that the Board meets on Friday next, and he wished to know whether he ivould again have to report to tho members that he could get neither money nor attention from the Government. In reply, Mr. F. Sutton this afternoon received the following telegram from the Colonial Under-Secretary:— " You may inform the Committee that Mr. Dick wrote yesterday a letter, wliich you will receive in course of post, accepting tho charge of maintaining the hospital and promising to recoup the expenditure of Committee when accounts have passed audit. Meantime, to sai'o embarrassment, he pays £1057 claimed by Committee as spent in nine mouths ending 31st December, and ivill pay balance up to the 2Sth instant on receiving auditors' report. From the Ist of March payments will be made direct from Treasury as in other Government Departments."