HOSPITAL TRUSTES

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1413, 25 March 1905, Page 3

HOSPITAL TRUSTES

•Kao monthly meeting of the Hospital •Trustees was held yesterday- afternoon. Present : Messrs J. W. Nolan (obairman), 5, Grov, E. P. Joyce, B. Johnston, B. Sherratt, Captain Tucker, and T. A, ColeHarding presented the Treasreport, which showed :-Beceipts : 3?ank Cr. balance, 21st February, £i 33 os lid • patients’ fees. £35 12s; subscriptions, %ris- rent.-=64 lls ; contractor’s deposit, Sin • total, =6783 14s Id. Disbursements : Accounts passed, February 21st, =£ss 14s 9d; salaries paid, February 28tb, |47 4s 8d • bank orodii balance at date, =6680 14s Accounts" presented herewith, £llO ' 17a lOd, less salaries paid ps above, £47 4s 83 Memo : Government oubsidy accrued, J 254 17s 3d; District Board requisition, <drie 31st inst., £350. iHfho house report for the month shGwed fehat 4 >he Dumber of patients remaining Irom last month was 19, admitted since 12, discharged 18, remaining at date 13. ’ Mr Gray reported that everything was mimetessing- satisfactorily at the hospital. ®lfeavo of absence was granted to Mr Sherratt during his absence in England. Mr T A- Coleman was authorised to chtoin information in regard to polishing Inwalls of the operating room and surGray's motion to rsyjse the salaries df the staff came on for diecasaibn. The Chairman thought they should go iwto committee on the subject. ■ _ i?Mr Joyce said the discussion should be nnen to the press. He hold that the ratepayers were entitled to know how their m °A telegram wStea’d from the Inspector <&„ner«l of giving the salaries aid at institutions the same size size as 1 Gisborne- ThelAuckland scale of salaries - and that recon nended by the matron of ?he Gisborne : lospitaV were also subTk w , KhSc! upon comparmg ’lEhe rites* cor* M with those at outside ' dnrtitntions thW/fae Gisborne staff were K being rigtU up to the rates ruling , SlS Tt W was o deoided that the scale of salaries j bythe matron be paid. :