SERVICES TO HEALTH

Taranaki Daily News, 5 December 1930, Page 7

SERVICES TO HEALTH

GIFT TO DR. VAIINTINE. HOSPITAL BOARD’S TRIBUTE. A presfealatibh in recognition of his long Mnd. valuable service to the public Wfts made to the. retiring Director-Gen-eral Of Health, Dr. T, H.’A. Valintine, bythfe Of thq Hospital Hoards’ Association at its meeting at WellingfOn oft WsdMid&y.. in, Mkihg lii - * Valifttihb’S ftbcopthnee ©f gift the chairman of the association, Wfellace, of Auckland, ■ifidice Of Ln Valihtine’s Work, and his building up the present hospital •Vstem. Of the Dominion. , Mt. .0. M. Lukh, Who apologised for thb • unavoidable absence of the chair* dlkft of tho Wellington Hospital Board, Mt.F. Castte, referred to his many yb&rt* association With Dr. Valintine. He had the highest .admiration for Dr-. devotion to duty, and to his high idbhls with regard to public health jhl tiers' Mr.Lukehlludedto the recog* jii tibp by Viiitiiig mfedical authorities - of the eibfellence of the hospital system ©f . NOW ZehlAnd. . ' Tributes to the Work of Dr. Valihtinewwepaid'by Other mfembbl’s of the qkecUtivyi ME Wallace ; said the Ne’w Zealand hospital System was itself'a Woiidetftil ' tribute' to Dr.. 4 Valintine’s Vision, Administrative ability and genuine sympathy for the sick and'suffering. In addition, Dir. Valintine’s fine personality endeared him to all those connected .with hospital administration in this •ountry. ; Dr, Valintine, in reply, said that to ihb members .of the boards he- Owed a deep. debt of gratitude for the able as-. slMAntft. they ?iad given in the development of the hospital and social service AygtAfc. He alluded to his early associajtibft with Mr. Luke in hospital work, to thb help of thb late Sir John fitlmond, then Sqlicitof-Gimeral, in framing the legislation oil the hospital system was founded. For a country of its size, they had ievefy teftStJfi tb be prOud of its hospital systein. He paid a tribute to the tact, ability, and remarkable knowledge of his successor, Dr. M. H. Watt. Df. Vftlifltine returned his thanks for thb presentation made to him by the members of the hospital boards, and rpmafk&d thtufa if it had not been for the cb-dptratibn of the boards it Would have bgfeh impossible for the hospital system tft . havb attained its present state of ftiOelknce.