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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11141, 3 December 1907, Page 7

Mr C. Macleod, a well-known Sydney mercantile broker, who has spent several weeks sight-seeing m. this Dominion, is at present m Dunedin. Speaking to a representative of the Star, Jie expressed himself m enthusiastic terms m regard tp-what he had seen.; '■ Your ;cou«tvy is a tine one, and your administrators "are doing. a wise thing m taking up what I might call an independent position. Anyone can see. that the country is m a prosipei'ous state, and, m my Opinion^ you are only on the fringe of that prosperity, because the possibilities of the country are so great. lam quite satisfied, too, that the system adopted liere of getting the people on to the land will eventually prove a great factor m building up New Zealand. Speaking for my own business, I may cay that I have been so impressed with the solidity of New Zealand that I have decided to open up agencies m the four centres." Mr Macleod visited New Zealand purely m search of health, "but," he states, "the openings for business were so marked that I have to a- certain extent combined' business with pleasure." Speaking of Auckland hospital matters at a meeting of the City Council, Dr. Stopford .(a. member of the Hospital Board) said that after paying a visit to the hospital he was strongly of opinion that the Board's policy, which was laid down on definite lines, was a safe and correct- one. The conditions under which the hospital has been worked m the past was a disgrace to any civilised city. These conditions were now being remedied, but there was fetill room for improvement. The germ-infected basement, the passages of which he likened to "subterranean dungeons," was not fit for human occupation. Speaking of the operation theatre built by a previous Board, he said that- with the exception of the four walls the expenditure on it was like "so much money pitched into the ditch." There were "nine wash-basins m the theatre, but whilst they .were all carefull? -tranped a flaw m any oue of them would make -the chance of life infinitesimal man .abdominal operation. He ■thought that six of these basins might be dispensed with. He could have produced an operation theatre of wood and glass at one-third the cost, and it would have been perfectly safe.