The Daily Times. The oldest Manawatu journal: Established 1875. SATURDAY, DEO. 22, 1883. THE HOSPITAL QUESTION.

Manawatu Times, Volume IX, Issue 1132, 22 December 1883, Page 2

The Daily Times. The oldest Manawatu journal: Established 1875. S ATURDAY, DEO. 22, 1883. THE HOSPITAL QUESTION.

I At the risk of wearying on* readers, we again revert to the Hospital question. Is it not pitiable to ace poor unfortunates who have.the mis* fortune to break a leg huddled on a; stretcher into a railway train, and jolted for 60 miles to^Wangainii? In a progressive' district like this, where so much has been done m roadmaking m the Borough', it is a crying shfline that this Hospital question should be so cointplefcelyi ignored by ( the Borough CounoiL A? year ago, yrhpa it was proposed M erect a Hospital at Fitzherbert most, commendable' energy was !^hoi^i.; The ma%i^wjw^Jsoaght up at meet-, ing after meeting ; d«eussiojas were almost incessant!- and srerhelievewe are right m saying that an arrangement was <come (to-tfcat th» present site, if power e^t^di Should > be sold ; and if power did not exist. Parliament should be asked to grant

it, so that the proceeds might bed— j voted to the erection of a suitable i building. At the time we commended j the Council for its humanity m take | ing the matter m hand so energeti- > cally, and we believed that r-isdom. : would induce the Feildingßo ongh, | the Manawatu Council, an -j orh i- | local, bodies to support a Pal I Hospital, if fairly, eific'.oru V*-* ? ' i what has the ßojrongh Council duv J ,j Simply nothing. The r/sy-ttev ' ia * j been dropped. All the elc- eu J speeches which were made *'^' v , bushmen breaking their icgß; r T |jei j cases requiring a local Hcsr t ' ;> '' a , lost their fervour aud V J ** V> & °^ I simply come to r.s ar ©cooes ot an Earnestness m a . S'f* »*£ which has now We should not feei *•' on the point »°* * hat ™ *hescWriefor^ .^ log* ™ fc 7 :U, t^----H-n; tal m any, ste ;> . J „"" anindic^^,'; . G °; ncll^ itttaliVeare pxhemely sorry that Whla-'-athy I>&^ settled down upon ,th«x iv -r^agard this most lmpoi Ikotm B W As the Government Sefc^togiveLl for every pdittid aoe^t by the Borough, there isreiiiv'to need to delay aotion m (tile mak^ r *°c Terrace Ind Bite i c^ on will -he taken m this j; a ty , aud that the sighi of me Ms&- broken legs being sant ja jcnr»« stty of ,60, miles m a railway carriage soon be a thing of the past.