NELSON HOSPITAL AND CHARI TABLE AID BOARD.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 51, 19 May 1910, Page 4

NELSON HOSPITAL AND CHARI TABLE AID BOARD.

The following notes of the last meeting of the above Board, held on the 4th instant, are dinned from the 4 ‘ Nelson Evening Mail’’ t—"An instance of the valuable services that can be rendered. to such a body as the Nelson Hospital and Charitable Aid Board by women members was afforded last evening, when a comprehensive report on the various receiving homes in Nelson and the Waimeas was presented by Me-dames Fell and Watson. They had made an extensive insj ectipn of the various homes, and were able, to bring to the service of the Board the womanly qualities in the care ofchildren and. the keeping of Ironies that men generally lack except in special cases. Seven homes in . the Waimeas and five in Nelson city were visited, .as were also St. Andrews and St. Mary’s Homes.... The ehil dren were found healthy, happy, and contented, and affection existing between them and their fostermothers, was noticeable in many places. They .were strongly of opinion that the Board was to be congratulated upon the nature ol

its foster-homes. Mr Hoult was thanked for assistance given in making the inspection of the Wai; mea homes. ‘•‘ Legislation by exhaustion” is no doubt not a plank in the NeLon Hospital and Charitable Aid Board’s platform, but at the same lime.it is rurn’ng the. Gbvemmeiit a. closesecond in this respect. . The business at last night's meeting of the Board was' commenced soon aftei ,7.30. and to o’clock, a time at which most other, local bodies generally, manage to close! by. but the order paper or the ‘Were by. ’ no means exrMMtea|;v Th9gjKhHls of the clock moved’ the. Cathedral clocldnear by struck eleven, and.all wms quiet outside, .but inside the County Council mom the Boacc];i.n question, in the blaze of incan-

descent proceeding) with; its/ business. Althoughall eyes were kept the clock the meeting.-bragged on., till, nearly midnight A’ ; ’ 7 ‘ When the day or night question, for meeting was being .discussed at the monthly meeting of the Nelson Hospital and Charitable Aid Board last evening thp various claims of the Wai mea County Council and the City Coundil were brought into view, one member showing how the City' Council was able to transact its business in an evening. A ,country member facetiously remarked that the Board would need more daylight to keep it from piling up so large an overdrafts? the City Council had done at Its evening sittings. -

" I have been tiavelling for the last 36 hours to attend this meet; ing,’-’ said Mr Allan, of Col'hngwo.od, at the meeting of the Hospital and-. Charitable Aid Board last evening,. Through: i lie Ba'rk’v. grounding,on a sand;-bank at U kaka, he, together .with the Chairman, M r H. Baige.nt, had had to set off at a late hour and drive overland to lylotueka, . which occupied ’praeticajly. the • whole night-. Ali though of course, exceptional, the -'instance shows, what difficulties _cou-utry members often have to contend with in attending meetings in town.