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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19123, 18 September 1936, Page 6

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Pointing out. that the terms of the board’s agreement with friendly societies for the hospital treatment of thenmembers had been completed, and had received the sanction of the Minister,

a committee of the Cook Hospital Board yesterday recommended that the request of Mr. G. D. Muirhead, ,on behalf of the societies, for a renewal of negotiations be not acceded to.

The issue of pensions application forms to people who have been receiving relief from the Cook Hospital Board, and who are qualified for pensions under the amending legislation of the present session of Parliament, was mentioned by the managing-secre-tary, Mr. C. A. Harries, at yesterday ’s meeting- of the board. Mr, Harries stated that 40 cases had been identified among applicants for relief which would be qualified to apply for pensions, either as invalids, old age pensioners, or as deserted wives.

The practice of drovers who use the school road at Te Puia as an avenue for stock-droving was brought to the attention of the Waiapu County Council at its meeting on Tuesday, by the Te Puia School Committee. The committee’s letter pointed out that the road had been

formed to give access to the school, and had come into existence through the representations of the committee. Recent ly, however, frequent use of the road by travelling stock had caused much damage, and incidentally the schoolchildren had been ordered off the road by certain drovers. The council decided to request the owners of stock not to use the road in the manner indicated.

The fact that mot.orists have developed a habit of parking their cars near the entrance to the Cook Hospital, and not in the special park provided behind the residence of the medical superintendent, was referred to at yes terday’s meeting of the Hospital Board. The chairman, Mr, M. T. Trafford, said that the practice of parking near the doors was not only highly inconvenient to the staff and to individual car-drivers, but that t-lio conditions were likely to result 'in a bad accident sooner or later. The manag-ing-secretary, Mr. C. A. Harries, mentioned that the use of the back and side entrances to the hospital grounds by motorists was becoming a common practice, arid .that notices had been posted prohibiting the practice. The board decided t,o enforce strictly the standing regulations as to entry to the grounds and the parking of vehicles.

At a well-attended meeting bold recently of the Gisborne 30,C00 (bill it was decided to semi out circulars to spoils hoilies and business men soliciting their support in the summer programme of the flub. Tbe interest taken in the club augurs well for the, future. It was announced at the meeting that a general meeting would have to be held soon to confirm the rules of the organisation.

The rowing season in Gisborne will commence to-morrow afternoon, when members of tile Gisborne Rowing Club will endeavour to take out all the n&w men in order to accustom them to tbe

“feel” of a racing craft. Theresa re many points in rowing for a beginner to learn and this season one month will be allowed' before the commencement- of the initial series, the first trial fours, as it is recognised that the three weeks’ training in the paid, was not- sufficient. The list for tbe first series will close on Tuesday. An official opening day will be held at a later date and a programme for this function will be arranged by the committee.

Tbe fact that tine finances of tbe Waiapu County Council were in a more nourishing slate than usual at the time the last balance-sheet was compiled, and that the position is now materially worse than was then disclosed, emerged in the course of a discussion at the council’s last meeting. The member for the Bay of Plenty, Mr, A. Gordon Hultquist, M,P., forwarded a letter which ho bad received from the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. It. Semple, intimating that the Waiapu council’s finances seemed to lie such that it could attend to the rest ora-, tion of flood damage, in the county without Government- assistance, which had been applied for by the council. The letter drew from Cr. H. Williams the statement that to-day’s position in the county finance's was not nearly so good as when the last balance-sheet was drawn up, and that flood damage restoration would represent an unduly heavy burden if no assistance were forthcoming. The council agreed to furnish the district member with information supporting the application previously' made to the Minister.

•‘There is a great deal of cant and .nimbug in the avowed policy of the ■Socialist Government,” said Mr. F. W. Doidge, in an address at Onehunga. ‘Mr. Semple is tile modern political Simon Lcgree. It is his job to apply the lash to the trades unionist, who maintains that be still possesses tbe right to freedom of speech and freedom of action. Mr. Semple moralises upon tbe iniquity >f one man bolding more than one job and of any man making an extra effort for extra pay. ‘‘What,’’ asked the candilate, “does Mr. Semple propose doing .villi his colleague, the Hon. Mr. Lark, vho draws £350 per year as a member jf the Legislative Council, £IOO per year \s a member of the Transport Board, and CSCO per year as tbe Auckland secretary at’ the New Zealand Workers’ Union? And what is Air. Semple going to do with the Hon. Mr. Mason, who draws upwards of a- thousand per year as Attorney-General, £3OO per year as chairman of the Transport Board, and also •arries on practice ns a barrister and solicitor?”

The building programme to which die Cook Hospital Board has been giving attention in recent months wa. again mentioned in connection with three items of business brought before the monthly meeting of the board yesterday afternoon. The first of the references was to the necessity for accommodation for chronic cases, tin chairman, Mr. M. T. Traiford suggesting that the present tuberculosis block should be made over t,o chronic vases, and new accommodation provided for the tuberculosis ward. Extensions of accommodation at the Memorial Home, to permit of the admission of more women, were-proposed by the finance committee, and on the recommendation of the engineer, Mr. D. Me Nab, the board also considered the erection of a new boiler-house and a new steam installation. Both these matters were referred to the committee which will draft the building programme of the board.

The fact that two assistants for the hospital farm stall’ had been engaged by the chairman and members of the tarm committee without a formal call for applications roused Mrs. A. E. Beer to protest at the monthly meeting of .lie Cook Hospital Board, held yesterday aftcrno.on. The chairman, Mr. M. T. Trafford, pointed out that it was not considered worth while advertising the positions, as the placement bureau had many vacancies for farm workers, and could not get enough young men for the jobs. Mrs. Beer held that all positions under the board sh.ould be advertised in the Gisborne newspapers, but the chairman held that in a matter of urgency, or where advertising was considered unlikely to furnish satisfactory resultsj appointments should be made summarily in cases where no executive responsibility would be involved. A majority of the board members supported the chairman in the matter, Dr. H. Goulding Bice being the only supporter .of Mrs. Beer’s point of view.

An application for a grant of seed

potatoes fr.oin the Cook Hospitu. Board was the subject of a brief dis cussion at yesterday afternoon’s meeting of the board, when the chairman.

Mr. M. T. Trafford, stated that nothing had been done regarding the claim, as the applicant was understood to be a lit young man who had refused work

n the country. Mrs. A. E. Beer rcuarked that she knew of the case, and

was int'orrned that the young man was not tit to undertake hard work. The medical superintendent, Dr. It. J. B. Hall, reported that he had examined the applicant three years ago, but could not speak of his present health. Mr. H. Adair moved that the claim be not entertained, and Mr. C. G. Bayliss moved as an amendment that the

pplieniit be invited to submit to medial examination. Mr. Adair’s motion

was carried by a majority vote, and Mrs. Beer remarked that the applicant probably would be ,oti the board’s outdoor relief list, lacking the means to supply himself with food.

A statement that the encroachment

of the Waiapu River towards Ruatoria township in time would threaten the existence of that coastal centre was

made a't Ihe monthly meeting of the Waiapu County Council by Or. R. (!. Sherwood Male. Ur. Hale stated that

to build‘groynes on the riverbank and thus afford protection to the township would cost from £15,C00 to £20,0C0, and another councillor suggested that it might he more economical to buy the township outright and transfer it. The matter was raised by receipt of a letter from an owner of property in the vicinity, who stated that when he had bought his block lie had been informed that the County Council would not levy rates ot> it, owing to its situation on the riverbank, and its exposure to

erosion. It was decided by the council to advise the property-owner that there was no ground for his assumption that he would bo free-from rates, and that the • oiiiiS of protecting private property was not upon the council. At the same time, it was decided to draw the atten-

tion- of the district member, Mr. A. Gordon Hultquist, to the threat to Rua torn from the erosion.-