THE HOSPITAL TRUSTEES.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1349, 10 June 1905, Page 2

THE HOSPITAL TRUSTEES.

TO THK'EDITOR, ' faiEj —Tbeta must b» Borootbing; rotten in the public atmoaphera of Waibi when a body like the Hospital Trustees oari .play duolti and drakos with publio money ) asinstanced thootbei" evening whon accept- • ing tenders for supplies for the Hospital. ■ The highest tenders being accepted moans that something over £ls of public money is just thrown to tho winds. The #llllO policy is carried puiwitb regard to fire assurance, and tho beauty of it all ib that soci<) of tlnuien are those who, aa Borough Councillors, voted Bgainst tho dust-cart, . as :hey were inclined to praotice economy ct the expense of tho publio health of the town, Taking things as tbev appoar, the two aitions do not seorn to fit in stall, and I considor it a great ahaino that such tilings' shoald be.' To increase Iho Hospital reven|io people woro ioduoed to becomo ; subscribers' of pet annum, but from the action of tho present' Hospital Trustees it | seems ihnt subscribers ar« not required \ when 115 per annutacan be thrown away in one transaction, H'lvingtho good old:' borough to full back upon, I suppose the management of tbe hospital cau afford vio do as they ljlte with publio subscriptions; Anyhow, I for one will not pay any more, annual sub? nntil such time as there is a material nbange liiado in the expenditure of hospital funda.—»l am, yours, truly, 1 Annual Subscbibir