KAIPARA HOSPITAL BOARD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15824, 22 January 1915, Page 7

KAIPARA HOSPITAL BOARD.

RESIGNATION OF CHAIRMAN.

Tjte quarterly meeting of the Kaipara Hospital Board was held at Dargaville on Friday last. There were present: Messrs. T. Bassett (chairman), D. McCarroll, J. A. McLean, R. Smith, and J. Stallworthy.

The financial statement showed that receipts for the quarter totalled £1502. and the expenditure—which included salaries for four months, or one month into the current quarter—amounted to £740, leaving a credit bank balance of £562. In addition to the balance, the. following sums were due: Hobson County Council, £801; Otamatea County Council, £784; Dargaville Borough Council, £185; and Department of Public Health, £1529, making a total of £3338 to be paid to the credit of the board. With the expenditure of £1780 for the cottage hospital at Paparoa, and the installation of an electric plant and X-rays apparatus, to cost £626, at, Te Kopuru Hospital, the sum of £1550 would remain to meet all contingenciesThe question of co-operating with the Public Works Department in equipping a t hospital suitable for workmen engaged en the formation of the North Auckland Main Trunk railway line, was deferred till next meeting.

At the conclusion cf the meeting the chairman, who st various stages of the proceedings had entered into wordv con flict with Mr. M.-Carroll, handed 'in hia resignation, statin? that ho preferred to remain an ordinary member of the board.