A NEW POLICY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7110, 23 April 1910, Page 1

A NEW POLICY

HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID. THE ADMINISTRATIVE SCHEME. A new policy for the .working of tho new Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board was presented to a meeting of dhat body .yesterday by a committee appointed for the purpose. The committee recommended that for administrative purposes the board appoint three committees—finance and endowment. hospital, and charitable aid. That the hospital and charitable aid committees be empowered to nominate other than their own members to act on the committees, such nominations to be approved by the board.

The committees to be composed as follow ;

Finance and Endowment, seven members—Chairman and secretary of the hoard, two members to be appointed by the board, one nominated by the hospital committee, one nominated bv the hosWrid committee who must be a member ot the Otaki subcommittee; one nominated bv the charitable aid committee. Hospital Committee—To consist of eleven members, whose duties will he to administer the Wellington and Otaki hospitals and sanatoria, the Otaki institutious ro be controlled by a subcom imttee of five of such hospital committee, which shall include the two tives of the iforowhenua County and Levm Borough Councils. Charitable Aid That for charitable aid purposes the district be divided into five subdistricts, as hereinafter defined, such subdistricts to include all (.hose areas within tho boundaries of the following local authorities mentioned and b ®. E ® aQ d numbered as herein niter defined.

A°- 1: Wellington subdistriet Wellington City Council, Miramar. Ivarori ii at? borough Councils. ' No. 2; ttutt Valiev subdistriet—Lower Hutl, Pctone and Eastbourne Borough Councils, Upper Hutt Town Board, and all that land comprising the Hutt Valley from haitoke to the sea irrespective of the governing local authority in which it is included. No. 3: Johnsonville subdistrict Makara County Council and Johnsonville Town Board. No. 4- Hutt County subdistrict —Hutt County Council all that land included in the Hutt valley. No. 5 ; Horowlienua subdistrict— Horowhenua County and Levin. Borough Councils. ■

Charitable Aid Committee—To consist of nine members, whose duty will be to directb: coiitrol the Ohiro Home and the i administration of charitable aid within ; the boundaries of subdistriet No. 1, as 1 heretofore defined, and to superintend the distribution of charitable aid in the : remaining subdistricts. Nos. 2. 3. 4 and 5.. as also heretofore defined, by means ot subcommittees to bo appointed in .°ach i of (hose subdistricts, such subcommittees to include those members of the board resident within the boundaries of those respective subdistricts. I Indigent Children—That the present , arrangements between this board and the Education Department regarding the committal to and the maintenance of indigent children in the various industrial schools controlled by that department be continued. STAFF. General Secretary—That there be a general secretary appointed by the board, and pending the appointment of such general secretary the board retain the services of the acting-secretary (Mr George Willis.) for three months at a salary of 11:250 per annum, to afford the board an opportunity of considering the question of reorganisation of the staff. Institutional Staffs—That all other officers and the whole of the staffs of both divisions of the board be • retained temporarily, under tho same conditions as formerly employed, until such time as the board considers tho reorganisation of the staff. COMMITTEES. Committees were suggested as follow Hospital Committee—The Rev. H. Van Staveren. Messrs R. C. Kirk. J. .1. Devine. G. T. London, J. Godber, J. Trevor, A. H. Hindmarsh, F. T. Moore. H. Bald, win, B. R. Gardener and W. Tompsitt. Charitable Aid Committee—Tho'chair-, man (Mr J. G. W. AitkenL Miss M. Rich mend, the Rcv.„W. A. Evans. Messrs D. McLaren. J. Smith, D. Robertson. J. E. Fitzgerald. J W. McEwan. and W. Galloway. By virtue of their residential qualifications the following members become members of the subcommittees for their re spective subdistricts. for the purposes of charitable aid :—Hutt Valley subcommittee —Messrs ,K. C. Kirk. ,T. W. McEwau, G. T. London and H. Baldwin.