HOSPITABLE AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 291, 14 June 1907, Page 4

HOSPITABLE AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

Hie monthly meeting of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board was held yesterday. There were present • --Messrs Bryant, Vincent, Matheson, J?-owler, Voss, Kendall, Pearcc, Co lien, Fitzherbert, and Wilson. Ihe chairman, Mr Wilson, beinj aUent when the n-eeting started, Mr rcarce was deputed to act in his stead. Correspondence was dealt with as rollows : — The Treasury notified that subsidy amounting to £383 8s lOd had beeii remitted to the Board's credit, .i »/ eildin S Borough Council and the Manawatu an.l Oroua County Councils remitted levies on account of em lent year. Ihirtean communications werty to liiiml containing sums in payment of Hospital accounts. Fourteen letters were received iireply to applications for payment of recounts at tlw Hos]ntal, niaking various excuses for i-ot forward iiiu the money. The clerk, in SO ui O instances, was instructed to sue for the outstanding sums. Miss 8. Watson wrote resigning her position as probationer. — Accepted Miss A. Gurney applied for her r.ame to be placed on the probntionpra lirt.—RoqiiMt acceded to. Tbo matron repottod thwt nt the iN'Kmmng of May there were i 39 patients in the Hospital. Durhig the n-rnth 41 were admitted and 39 dis"•argod, leaving 41 in on June Ist. The Receiving Officer put in his monthly report on the cases that had ctme under his notice, details beinogiven of each. Seven "casuals" had called during the month, and fssistcJ according to deserts. He saM that things were going on satisfactorily. Six sacks of potatoes had N-en received from Mr D. G. Monrad for distribution among the poor, and the thanks of the Board were due to him for the donation.— The Board di tided to write to Mr Monrad acknowledging his fr mdn< Bs. F. G. Alfrey, Inspector of Works, at the r.ew ward building and additions, reported .n the progress male on the vinous contracts. He stated that the carpenters had completed ttu» connecting corridor and the reconstruction of the roof to women's old ward. They were also well on n ith the lavatory bull lings, and sundry other alterations. The brickwork for un mortuary was completed, and everything was ready to start on the roof. On ;«n average six carpenters, two painters, two plumbers, one brickla'ver, and two laborers were employed during the month.— Standard.