UNREPRESENTED.
The question how little the country districts or -hew much the borough ought to' pay for the maintenance of the Hospital and Charitable Aid does not appear to interest the District Pfoard m the. slightest. At the last meeting of that strangely constituted body they told off their Chairman, Mr Joseph Ward, to represent them when the Awatero ■ appeal case came on. The Commissioners took their seats at eleven o'clock this morning to hear the appeal, but_ nobody attended on behalf of the ' District "Board to uphold the ' assessment appealed against. Mr Ward is absent at Wellington. The Commissioners adjourned the Court for half' an hour so that the Board might be represented m some way. At half-past 11 o'clock Mr ITodson, the Secietary, attended, but his errand was niorely to formally verify certain : figures. No; , solicitor appeared, for. the. Board, and tlie result was that the appellants had it all their f>wn way. Whatever , may. be said about the merits of the appeal, there c.>n be no .doubt - that the conduct of the District Hospital aud Charitable Aid Board ia (to put it mildly) remarkably strange.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXII, Issue 165, 15 July 1886, Page 2
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188UNREPRESENTED. Marlborough Express, Volume XXII, Issue 165, 15 July 1886, Page 2
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