ST HELENS SERVICE AND HOSPITAL BOARD
OPPOSITION AROUSED IN WELLINGTON NOW. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, November 27. Strong opposition to a suggestion by the Department that the Wellington Hospital should provide maternity service for the Wellington and Petone Hutt district to supplement the St Helens Flospital service was expressed at a meeting of the board to-day. It was contended that the founder of the St Helens homes never intended that this branch of social service should be carried on by Hospital Boards. Expressing surprise at the arrange ment arrived at between the Auckland board and the Department, Mr C. M Luke said that, if the chairman of the Auckland board had acted in his capa city as chairman of the Hospital Boards’ Association without consulting his colleagues, he had done an irregu lar and improper thing.
It was decided to send the following remit to the annual conference of the association: “ That the question of administration of St Helens Hospitals, having regard to the new phase as suggested by a letter from the Health Department. receive the* serious consideration of the Hospital Boards’ Association.” #
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19239, 28 November 1930, Page 8
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