HOSPITAL TRUSTEES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 107, 2 November 1909, Page 2

HOSPITAL TRUSTEES.

The Hon. C. M. Luke presided at to-day's meeting of the Wellington Hospital Trustees, the other members present being Messrs. J. Trevor, G. Nash, J. W. M'Ewan, and G. London. The return regarding patients showed a total of 211 in the hospital, the corresponding figures (twelve months old) being 275. Receipts from 20th October to Ist November included £1257 from fhe District Board, £91 7s 7d from in-patients, £15 12s Id from out-patients, and £73 3s 7d from rents. After meeting expenditures on account of v wages and accounts, there was a balance of £768 7s 2d left to credit, out of a balance of £1017 4s 5d to credit on 20th October. The House Committee brought down the following recommendations: — "That the medical superintendent be granted permission to draw up a Hospital Pharmacopoeia ; that Sister Mattel's (Miss Williams, theatre sister) resignation beaccepted; that Messrs. London and Trevor be a committee with full power to have, necessary excavations made ro formation of road at fever hospital site, and that they may call tenders for same ; that a letter of thanks be forwarded to Captain de Costa, of H.M.S. Challenger, for allowing the band to give their services." The recommendations were adopted.

The proceedings at the last two meetings of the Waterside Workers' Union came in for some strictures at the hands of "Nemesis," who writes to the editor to say that all the- interesting details relating to the secretary (Mr. M'Laren) and his position have found their way into the papers, in spite of the rule of the union forbidding publication of the business transacted at the meetings. As this rule appears to be a dead letter, he contributes his quota to the discussion. At the last meeting but one, says the writer, it was decided that Mr. M'Laren's resignation should be handed in to the executive by 26th October. As a result Sir. M'Laren questioned the legality of the meeting, and threatened to take legal advice. At the next meeting, held on Friday last, in place of the usual forty there w.as an attendance of a hundred and sixty-seven. The secretary's resignation was not accepted— the writer asserts that the meeting was pkeked with that object. Mr. M'Laren did not insist on its being accepted, but decided that he would not draw any salary while Parliament is sitting. Very few of those preseut, &ays "Nemesis," were granted a hearing — "it was Bedlam let loose. The whole of the proceedings were disgraceful." Perhaps, concludes the writer, ere long a meeting will be held, open to the public or confined to members of the union, reviewing the inner working of the Waterside Union. Such a meeting would do much good* •