HOSPITAL COMMISSION.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIII, Issue XVI, 15 October 1904, Page 22

HOSPITAL COMMISSION.

JUDGE WARD TO PRESIDE. WELLINGTON, October 7. His Excellency the Governor has ap« pointed Judge Ward, Mr S. E. McCarthy (Stipendiary Magistrate at Invercargill), and Mr R. Beetham (retired Stipendiary Magistrate) to constitute the Royal Commission to inquire into the allegations respecting the conduct of the Auckland Hospital. The members will be in Auckland next week, and will immediately commence their work. Of the members of the Commission, Judge Ward, who has been appointed chairman, is well known alt over the South Island, where he is engaged as a District Court judge. He temporarily acted as Supreme Court judge some years ago at Dunedin during the absence of Mr Justice Williams, and is at present the president of the South Island Railway Appeal Board. Mr Beetham is well known to Aucklanders, as he presided over the Cosvley Home Commission last year, lie recently held a departmental inquiry into the management of Sunnyside Asylui-i. He has been in the Government service for 40 years, and recently retired on superannuation from the stipendiary magistrate's bench. Mr R. E. McCarthy is described as one of the most painstaking anil conscientious magistrates on the Bench. He was appointed a stipendiary five or six years ago, and was formerly a solicitor in Naseby, Otago,