THE £15,000

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 14 October 1922, Page 4

THE £15,000

THE Ciuvthrofi Trustees and the Nelson Hospital and Charitable Aid Board are to be heartily congratulated on the outcome of the negotiations in connection with the difficulties that arose regarding the late Mr Cawthron’s gift of £15,000 (and the (Jovernnient subsidy thereto) for the purpose of building a new hospital at Nelson. If the Hospital Board had not adopted a sound, commonsense course, the probabilities are that Nelson would . have lost the money altogether, so far as the hospital is concerned. On legal grounds its claims were not sound beyond question, but morally the Board was entitled to the money and to the Government sub-' sidy. By a special clause in Ihe Wash-ing-up Bill the Trustees are to be relieved of responsibility attaching to them in connection with the gift. As the Board’s Chairman (Mr W. Nicholson) and C. K. Fell) were promised by the Prime Minister on Thursday that the subsidy would'be forthcoming, all should now be plain sailing. The happy prospects show the advantages of reasonableness. If one of those petty, irritating squabbles .in which, members of public bodies appear to think more of their personal importance than the work in hand, had occurred, it is impossible to say what it would have, cost the people of Nelson Hospital District.