The Orphanage Committee.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5573, 22 March 1886, Page 3

The Orphanage Committee.

A HAPPY FAMILY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Sib, — Can any of your readers who hunt up Christchurch genealogical trees, and such matters, inform me if it is true that Mr Westenra and Mr Nalder are brothers-in-law P Is it also true that the came relationship exists between Mr Westenra and Mr Vincent? If these are so, the public can account for the harmony existing between the three, and the wish to obtain' seats on the Hospital Board P Is it also true, I ask this of census agents, that Mr William White lives a neighbour to a late Master of the Orphanage ? Does this account for the knowledge he has displayed of the former management of the Orphanage ? Is it also true that Mr White and this gentleman are very great personal friends P Ia it also true that the Dr Westenra who is House Surgeon to the Hospital, is the son of Mr Westenra, who is a member of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board P If these things are so, does it not explain the anxiety of Messrs Westenra, Nalder, and Vincent to the members of the Hospital Committee ? Mr Vincent is, I believe, Chairman of the Hospital Committee, but Mr Westenra, being a man of pure motives, had no other alternative (after his son was secured in his position, was it not P) but to resign. This he magnanimously did. Of course, no other alternative remained but to leave his relatives behind to protect the interests involved. This he magnanimously did also. Your readers will not be long in estimating the motives which have animated some of the members of the Orphanage Committee in their recent action in dismissing the master. I would advise Mr Westenra to be no more mixed up with either beer or law in this matter, but, if he wishes to be still thought an amiable old gentleman, to cut the connection at once, and resign. — I am, &c, MEDIATOR.