HOSPITAL BOARD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23498, 12 May 1938, Page 11

HOSPITAL BOARD

THREE NEW MEMBERS TWO LABOUR CANDIDATES SUCCESSFUL The following are the results of the voting for members of the Otago Hospital Board. The new members are Mrs McMillan and Mr R. Walls (Labour) and Mr W. H. McLeod (Citizens). Two members of the old board—Messrs Venn and Silverstone—lost their seats. Details:— NEWLAXDS, William 18,275 ROSS. Norah 18,040 FARQUHAR, Marion Beatrice 16,865 STEEL, Alexander 16,822 McMILLAN, Ethel Emma 15,527 W r ALLS, Robert 15,464 McLEOD, William Henry 15,201 The above were elected. Robertson, John 15,173 Venn, Frederick Winfred .. 14,027 Sincock, Edwin 13,599 Herbert, Alice May 13,463 Silverstone, Mark 13,329 O’Donnell, Bryan 12,331 MacArthur, Sarah Catherine 12,183 Brooks, Gertrude .. 3.184 Jones-Neilson, Orpah .. 3,062 Informal: 531. COMBINED DISTRICT OF GREEN ISLAND AND ST. HILDA BOROUGHS AND PENINSULA COUNTY. •DOVE, James William .. 3,009 tCLINCH, John Herbert . 1,771 Informal; 39. COMBINED DISTRICTS OF WAI- - AND WAIKOUAITI. AND BOROUGHS OF PALMERSTON, PORT CHALMERS AND WAIKOUAITI. SHEAT, Henry S. , . 993 Fraser, Catherine Allan ~ 968 Two small returns have yet to come. POLICY FOR THE FUTURE Reference to the future policy of the Otago Hospital Board was made by the chairman (Mr J. W. Dove) when returning thanks at St. Kilda last night for his re-election. Mr Dove said that, if the legislation which was promised by the Prime Minister (Mr Savage) were placed on the Statute Book, the problem of hospital administration was in the future going to give boards a great deal of concern. They were, however, nonpolitical bodies, and had to work hand in glove with whichever Government was in power. "So far as our relations with the present Minister of Health (Mr P. Fraser) are concerned,” Mr Dove continued, “ they are of the most harmonious.” The board was hoping in the near future, Mr Dove said, to carry out a definite extension to Dunedin Hospital, making it a 500-bed institution. This meant at least a 600-bed nurses’ home. He hoped when he came before them again to show a programme of progress and honesty.