ST HELENS PROPOSALS TO BE FURTHER DISCUSSED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19239, 28 November 1930, Page 3

ST HELENS PROPOSALS TO BE FURTHER DISCUSSED.

(Special to the “Star."'/ AUCKLAND, November 28. "I take strong exception to the remarks directed to me personally by Mr C. ,M. Luke, ex-chairman of the Wellington Hospital Board, in respect to the negotiations carried on between the Auckland Board and the Minister of Health,” said Mr William Wallace, chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board, to-day. “Mr Luke ought to know quite well that I would not act as chairman of the Hospital Boards’ Association as he suggests when dealing which such an important matter as St Helens Hospital. This question has been dealt with as an Auckland matter and not a Dominion question, and all that has been accomplished so far is a discussion with the Minister. / “The Auckland Board has not yet received an official communication from the Government in reference to the Board taking over St Helens, but the Minister has promised to submit concrete proposals to the Board on similar lines to what is being done in Christchurch and Dunedin. The Auckland Board has undertaken, as heretofore, to provide for indigent cases. “Like Mr Luke. I am fully conversant with what was in the mind of Richard Seddon when he established St Helens Hospitals. They were organised to assist people with moderate means or with none at all. The Hospitals’ Association will be meeting in Wellington on Tuesday next and I will then olace the matter before members so chat the whole question can be discussed and Auckland’s position thoroughly explained.”