CHAIRMAN DISQUALIFIED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 413, 3 November 1930, Page 8

CHAIRMAN DISQUALIFIED

TECHNICAL BREACH OF LAW [Per Press Association. ] DANNEVIRKE, Nov. 1. Disqualified in the morning, and reelected irz the evening. This was the position in which Mr Lee Stein (chairman of the Dannevirke Hospital Board) found himself on Friday through a technical breach of the Act by exceeding by 7s the amount stipulated in the Act for goods supplied to the Board. It was explained that Air Stein, who is a draper and chairman of the Board, dis couraged the purchasing of goods for the hospital from his shop. When the books of the Board were closed at the end of the financial year. Mr Stein had supplied goods amounting to £7 Is 3d representing separate items procured for the hospital from a wholesale firm which was unwilling to invoice the goods to the. Board direct. In addition, the matron of the hospital had procured goods amounting to £3 5s 9d, which were chargeable to a special fund, and were paid for after the year had closed, although procured previous to March 31. This brought rhe total to £lO 7s and resulted in Mr Stein being disqualified by the Auditor-General, as the amount exceeded the limit allowed by seven shillings. Notification of disqualification was only received that morning and the Council reappointed Mr Stein as representative on the Hospital Board in the evening. Meanwhile, presumably, the Hospital Board is without a chairman.