HOSPITAL BOARD VACANCY

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 124, 26 May 1923, Page 5

HOSPITAL BOARD VACANCY

10 IBJB EDITOR.

Sir, —The action of certain members of the City Council in declining to accept Councillor Chapman's recommendation that a Labour nominee should be accepted to fill a vacancy on the Hospital Board tends to give rise to the suspicion that wire-pulling is taking place with the object of preventing Labour representatives from securing reeponsible positions on public bodies. It is regrettable that the council did not take the opportunity to appoint a thoroughly qualified woman to fill the vacancy. Although the council in the past had adopted the recognised rule of ap- . pointing a candidate who stood highest on the list of those defeated at the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board election, if the candidate happens to be a member of the Labour Party his rights to precedence are waived, and another, whose political views are not in accord with the Labour platform, is appointed to the position. The members of the Hospital Board who gave expression to the flowery words (perhaps with a desire to emulate ancient histrionic speeches on the heights of Olympus):—"They set themselves up as a model of justice, truth, and fair play"—must have had their tongues in their cheeks, because their words are proved farcical so far. as their treatment to Labour representatives is concerned.—l am, etc., EOSS NELSON. 25th May. . . .