HOSPITAL MATTERS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 4402, 8 June 1933, Page 5

HOSPITAL MATTERS.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —I am absolutely appalled at the base ingratitude of the people of the Borough of Te Kuiti for their lack of appreciation of the enormous debt they owe to Mr. O’Connell, and it simply staggers me that evidently nothing was done to assist him in the establishment and subsequent direction of the policy of the Hospital. My own shortcomings I have already admitted; I hope the rest of the community will have the grace to do likewise, and forthwith relieve Mr, O’Connell of some of the burden and strain that he must have laboured under all these years. It may be some consolation to him to know that a “prophet is notoriously without honour in his own country.” Personally, I feel rather flattered at being compared with Rip Van Winkle—he at last did wake up. In closing this correspondence as far as I am concerned (the Hospital Board can probably look after its own business) I would like to point out that some people’s chief claim to public recognition lies in finding what one may perhaps be excused for calling “would-be Mayor’s nests.” What would have happened in this case had Mr. O’Connell been the “sitting” Mayor—well, I leave it to the imagination.—l am, etc.,

A. L. FLUX.