HOSPITAL BOARDS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 18 July 1923, Page 5

HOSPITAL BOARDS.

CONSUMPTIVE SANATORIA

(B1 TELEGRAPH — PHF.m AfVrOCIATTON.) WELLINGTON, July 1. ®n the conference resuming, Sir James Wilson questioned the advisability of passing any motion, and suggested that the question be deferred a few months.

Dr. Valintine said the suggestion overwhelmed him, as he had placed all his cards on the table. Nothing was to be gained by waiting. It was a question.;of £s d, and he did not thv:nk they would lose more than. £40,000 a year on them.

A voice: We are not satisfied on that .point. Will you guarantee it? Dr. Valintine: One cannot give a guarantee, but -I have not been throwing d-ust in.the eyes of the boards. Mr J. Stall worthy urged that it was cruel to take these peonle, who were slowly dying, away from* their friends. Ihey should ascertain how far the boards were prepared to deal with their own cases.

Dr. Valmtine said he had stated tnat the department could not run institutions^ as economically as Hospital Jioaros. It was very humiliating to hftve to say that, . but it was because they hnd to go to other departments. He had no-desire to throw down the gauntlet to the boards, for they had no quarrel. A Eiofcon that the department continue to administer the institutions for such districts as were not prepared to deal with their oww T.B. eases, leaving other boards to make their own provisions, was defeated.

The chairman's amendment proposed at the morning sitting was also defeated, as was the proposal to defer the matter pending further proposals as to boundaries and subsidies, another conference to be held later. There was no seconder for a motion to confer with the boards interested in tlie two institutions.

Fina.ly, Sir James; Wilson's motion "that this conference does not approve of the proposal'of the' Department of Health to hand over the sanitaria at Otaki and Pukeora" was carried fey 18 votes to 5. .

A deputation on the ouestion of subsidies is to wait on Hr'Massey (3Enister for Finance) on Thursday morning