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WITH CLOSED DOORS.

EVEN in this late period of the nineteenth century there are foolish people who try to gag the Press and persist in conducting in a whole-and-corner fashion business which closely concerns the public. In Napier the other day the Harbor Board went Into Committee to appoint an Engineer, and mattershave been carried out in such a queer way that the whole body has laid itself open to grave distrust. The Secretary was first elected to the position, but on a subsequent ballot was rejected, and Mr Carr was appointed. But though the appointment was made on Tuesday night, up to the Saturday the Secretary had given Mr Carr no official intimation of the selection made, and it is believed that when next the Board meets there will be an attempt to upset the election. Whilst this shady work is going on the ratepayers are completely in the dark, and the members who are blameless in the matter are likely to be numbered with those who are not, it being impossible to point the finger of correction at the particular members who occasion such distrust. In Wanganui some trouble in connection with the Hospital has been aggravated into a serious scandal by the silly way in which the enquiry has been conducted, the Trustees being foolish enough to try and exclude the light which tha presence of reporters would shed upon tbe proceedings. When men appointed by the public to manage public institutions evince a desire to work in the dark the natural result is that special reasons are assigned ■ for such a suspicious way of doing things. Referring to the trouble in that district the Wanganui Herald remarks “ Anything more unsatisfactory than the present position of affairs respecting the Hospital it would be hard to imagine. For two days a committee consisting nf representative men has been sitting in private taking evidence relating to most sertous charges against the matron of the Hospital and the Secretary of the Board, any one of which, if proved, demands an instant change In the management of the institution. But when the enquiry was finished, in place of deciding In as short a time as possible whether the case for the prosecution had been made out the committee go awav to their homes, and leave the Hospital to take charge of itself for at least a week. Another day in- town would, we should imagine, have sufficed for the drafting of a report, and coming to some decision In the matter. There are all kinds of rumors current as to what the charges were, and how the committee heard them, and we question very much whether anything short of the publication of a iirecis ofthe evidence, and the full text of the report that is to be submitted, will satisfy the public that justice has been done. We cannot altogether rid ourselves of the idea that the members of the Hospital Board are much to blame for a scandal of this magnitude having arisen. Whatever the result of this enquirj’ there will remain a feeling pf distrust and dissatisfaction unless very material alterations are made in the management.”

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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 409, 28 January 1890, Page 2

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WITH CLOSED DOORS. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 409, 28 January 1890, Page 2

WITH CLOSED DOORS. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 409, 28 January 1890, Page 2

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