HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12609, 25 June 1904, Page 6

HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

A special meeting of the Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board was held at the . Board's office last evening foi the purpose of ,yj. dealing' with the •"; business : postponed - iron*J:-* the ordinary meeting on Monday last. Then were present: Messrs. G. J. Garland (chairman). J. A. Boale. J. Court, J. Mcleod, L. . ■• J. Bagn» 1, A. R. Harris, J. B. ' Walter*; s:% M. Casey, and A. Bruce." .»' ' ■* "-U\ Tenders: Tender for supplies to the baa- ■' pital, nurses' homeland Costley Bane: for \,\ the ensuing ye«ir were dealt with, the follow-';?,".. ing being accepted Coal and coke, 13. H. Bennett; firewood!, W. and G. J Wirislorie; - £sh, Mrs. F. Wiliiums ; rations, H. M. Smee- ; } J tou, Limited; bread, T. Teasdalc: drug", , Henderson and Barclay; wines, spirits, etc., S. J. Atkins cab hire, Keenan and Serai;; 'vy'* meat, H poultry, ■ and . ice, Hellaby and .:' Co.; printing', 1 W. "Wilkinson;" drapery, D.S.C.; groceries, C. F. Hutchinson; * crockery, T^S^s :-| : field, Potter, and Co. It was decided to invite fresh tenders for milk, interments ' ' and the supply or nations at Onchunga.' A ' Country Protest: A letter? was read from the "* Drnry Road Board - protests* against what it termed a proposal to «*p<«** %V-S an "extravagant sum" in the erection o) .; a doctor's'residence at the hospital and out J~~'' for the manager of the Costley Home. Whatever the position at ? the hospital might be, the opinion was expressed that the; proper place for the manager of a home w* * ! i» home itself. "■ It was stated that the :V -'i* , generally, of the people in the country w<V that they had to pay a great deal too mtf* f or- charitable "■'aid.'.' : \No doubt X the lty s &fiWm was partly to blame 'for this, but until tl'< system- was" altered: it behoved those charge of the expenditure'to' be very careM ■ The ', letter concluded -by - stating that tb« amounts now ft expended in >[ charitable,»Jps|||f would be better if spent on metalling' 'J' : country roads. The letter was received--. The Wolfa Bequest: The Chairman H| that the sum received from the bequest of the lute Mr. A. E. Wolfe was £319 ««• It was decided to erect a : tablet, reooiduW*; $ the bequest, in the new operating thwtw of the hospital, on which the money » I* ll * ,i : .,, expended, . * ..-^. ;