TUAPEKA HOSPITAL BOARD.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4515, 15 January 1898, Page 3

TUAPEKA HOSPITAL BOARD.

ANNUAL MEETING. The annual meeting of the above Board was held in the County buildings last evening. Present. : Messrs Livingston (chairman), iDglis, Oudaille, and Simpson. MINUTES. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. chairman's report. The Chairman* annual repot t for the 12 months ended 31st December was road. 1 showed that the revenue for the year had been £1.145 Us Bd, and the expenditure (exclusive of accounts to be passed at the present meeting) £946 11s 83, leaving acredit balance of £199. The average daily nunmber of patients daring the year had been S4. During tbo year the hospital had been connected .by telephone, which had proved a great convenience, especially to people residing in remote dis-_ tricts. The quadrangle at the back of the hospital bad been asphalted, and a concrete gu l ter construct ed round the back walls of the building. The planking on the pathways at. the back of the hospital had also been attended tc. During the Diamond Jubilee celebrations' a number of philanthropic persons started a collection for the purpose of establishing the nabolas of a fund for providing warm underclothing and other requisites for the poor and destitute patients, and a sum of £61 14s'bad been raised. ' The cordial thanks of the Board' were due to' the promoters and subscribers in the good work. :': ' The Chairman' B»id he had' nothing further to ' add to this report than to say that the' asphalting Work ' carried oqfc bad at the hospital had beep very timely, as owing to the heavy rain erea"; damage would have resulted 'bad that necessary work not been Carried opf. -•' ' AEfcoINTMENT OF"DHAJRBfAN. '

Qa the motion' of Messrs Qudaille and JngliijMr Livingston wai re?appointed pbajrptPf

a Mr Livingston thajnkod the members for ie- '. pppointing him. They could depend on him d doing nia best, »s in the past, to carry oil'- tho duties of the office to their- mutual satistac- - tion.' f. . COMPLIMENTARY. -» „ Mr loglifl sdid be understood their secre1 tsry reoeived no remuneraiion for his services to the Board and he thought it only right that they should express by vote of tbaoks l 1 heir high appreciation of tbo manner in I which he carried our- tho duties of the offi'p. 3 Mr Ouda'llo also endorsed the remarks of i Mr inglis, and the motion was carried unani- ) mously. ORDINARY MEETING. At the conclusion of the annual meeting tbo .ordinary meeting was held, the same mini 1 bers being present. MINUTSS. Tbe minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. doctok's report. Dr Newell's rrporc for the months of November and Dicomber Mas as follows :—: — November ; admitted 11, discharged 5, remained 12; December : admitted 10, discharged 10, died 3, remained 9. ACCOUNTS. The following Recounts were parsed for pavraent :— S.laries £62 3* 4d, T. Arthur ilB 11s 10.1, JasiJ. Oibson £'8 10s 2 3, A. G. Bateroan £1 63 9d 'j. Weatherall 10s 2rf, Jas. J. B-illard (Telegraph Deportment) £1, Herbert, and Co. £5 3s 21, G. O. Taylor £9 16« lOd, M. Hairin 18s, O. Swanwick £2 63 24, Munro Bros. JEIO 3d 2J, Allan Mitchell 9.<, E, Dimant £5 lls 6J. 1 Tbe Clerk read a list of accounts for maintenance which had bien rendered since lust race ing and was instructed as to what steps to take in reference to the collection of several of the more prominent of them. Tbe meeting then adjourned. 1