OTAGO HOSPITAL BOARD.

Otago Witness, Issue 3994, 30 September 1930, Page 67

OTAGO HOSPITAL BOARD.

MONTHLY MEETING. The monthly meeting of the Otago Hospital Board was held on Thursday evening, and was attended by Messrs W. E. S. Knight (chairman), W. Morgan, A. F. Sueich, J. W. Scurr, J. W. Dove, Dr ewlands, Miss Runciman, and Mrs Walter Ross. Mr J. S. Skinner (president of the-Re-turned Soldiers’ Association) and Mr J. M. White (secretary) waited on the board to place the views of the association before it in regard to the burial of an overseas soldier who had died in Dunedin.—Mr Skinner said that this soldier had served in the Great War and bad been in the Indian Army. The deceased had no relatives in New Zealand and the association thought that a man with so good a record should receive decent burial. The association had taken steps to have him buried in the soldiers’ plot in Anderson’s Bay, and it thought that the board should pay part of the cost of t the -funeral.—The chairman said that the board had a duty in providing funerals for indigent people, but it also had a policy where the burial was carried out by other bodies. Whether the board would depart from its usual policy, and pay the difference between the cost it would have been required to pay and the cost incurred by the association he could not sav. but he could assure the association that every consideration would be given to the case. —The matter was referred to the Benevolent Committee with power to act.

The town clerk wrote stating that, in accordance with the arrangements between the City Council and the board, the grant of £5OO made by the board had enabled 30 men per day to be employed on the North road.—Noted. The Perpetual Trustees, Estate, and Agency . Company wrote forwarding a cheque for £4OO, being an interim payment under the bequest of the late Harrison Bland. The bequest is to be devoted solely to providing extra comforts for the general inmates of the hospitals.— The gift was acknowledged with thanks. W. K. Gill wrote accepting appointment as a co-optative member of the Tapanui Hospital Committee. A letter was received from Mrs Irwin, matron of the Palmerston Maternity Hospital, stating that the following gifts had been received from the Palmerston Ladies Guild:—H.M.V. gramophone and 12 records, three flower vases, two clocks for the wards, half-dozen willow pattern cups, saucers, and plates (for staff use), crockery to set up six patients’ bags (complete), flannel and flannelette, which has been made into articles for use in the hospital, monthly magazine and books for the hospital library, seat for patients’ balcony, dinner wagon to carry four trays, four basket trays, half-dczen afternoon tea spoons, cake, cordials, strawberries, cream, and a gift, for each baby in the hospital at Christmas time. The Benevolent, Sanatorium, Hospital, and Finance Committees’ reports were adopted without discussion. TENDERS.

The following tenders were accepted:— For the supply of meat to the Pleasant Valley Sanatorium and Palmerston Hospital, Messrs Fraser and M’Leod, at schedule prices; for household coals for various institutions, Messrs A. Taylor and Sons, at schedule prices; for milk and cream to the Tuapeka Hospital, Mr Arthur L. Stokes; for meat to the Tuapeka Hospital, the Lawrence Meat Company. " . -