HOSPITAL BOARD PROTEST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18168, 14 August 1922, Page 9

HOSPITAL BOARD PROTEST.

"DICTATORSHIP" ALLEGED. LARGER CENTRES CRITICISED. I [BY TELEGRAPH. —Off.V CORRESPONDENT. J HAMILTON. Saturday. Strona comments were voiced by members of the Waikato Hospital 'Board this iweek agaiii&t what they considered the dictatorship set up by the four large hosi pita! board's — -Auckland, Wellington, i Christcbnreh, and Dunedin. At their recent conferance Mr. J. P. Baiiey (chairman) said the boards in question bad arrogated to themselves the right to ,av what all the other hospital beards | of ih« Dominion should do, and their decisions practically disfranchised all the peofiu of New Zealand except, those re-' eidiig in the four centres. The board fhouid pretest, and protest very strongly, a conference of this kind representing itself ae a hospitaJ conference and speaking for the -whole of New Zealand on hospital matters. Mr. C. J. W. Barton thought the> board had .1 rirlit to protest against four boards deciding the policy for New Zealand. Mf. H. E Tristriun considered 13io deciiaonr. of the conference should be waited before the board took any action. The conference might be moving to secure » gen(ir>.l, improvement of conditions for the wiiola of the boards of the Dominion. The board decided on a majority vote to protest to the Minister against the conference representing itself as voicing the views of the boards of the Dominion.