THE HOSPITAL APPOINTMENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4012, 19 August 1915, Page 6

THE HOSPITAL APPOINTMENT.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Eor the fairness and common sense of your leader in this morning’s paper I would thank you. But/with your usual courtesy, may I just say that the extraordinary proceedings oi the Borough Council gives the lie direct to Or Bright’s statement that “Men act with more judgment than women do.’’ It is very evident that the said gentleman has acted with too much judgment on his own lines and. too little of that instructive righteous ness that is the savour of all o>.r efforts. I quito agree with you that members of a board should represent tho whole of the citizens ra-! then than a section. But then where in ■Gisborne especially do you find a hoard composed of independent members ? Certainly not- tho Hospital Board, and assuredly not Cr Bright and Dr Collins. It seems a case ol : sauco for the “gander, but not for the goose.” You say with truth that tiio Hospital Board at tho present juncture has some serious, problems before it. It is a fact to which we have been only too much alive all along. Whoso fault is it that the hospital.expenditure from first to last has been a scandal ? Now,_ forsooth, we must ho asked to pay higher fees in order to help to makeup a deficiency occasioned by men oi “judgment.” With regard to your suggestion that an honorary committee of women might be appointed as a sort of helpless aceesKorv. \ou must know as well as 1 do‘that such a thing is put •of the question. Too long has wo~ | man found she has to do all.the wor.v I aml receive none of the plaudits, ana ! surely past experience has shown that with" some - members of the “judgment” class, only an explosion under their noses will ever break through the fossilised state of their intellects. No, rny friend, we have moved a little further, and we line! it is necessary, for women to have a say in the mani agement of things. That is why we j want cosmopolitan representatives i 1 su,lj l!tc ” brickbats.