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10.
Extension could only have one meaning, namely, that the
Colony was supporting it. In the event of expenditure
upon it exceeding your funds and other funds being applied
to it the Colony would have been placed in a false
position.
Therefore, before committing you to the
Stratford Place proposal we interviewed the President of
the Hospital, pointed this out, and submitted a resolution
binding the Hospital Committee to limit expenditure on the
Extension to the funds made available by you. We also
endeavoured to get him to agree to an additional series
of resolutions designed to provide a workable scheme for
the administration of the Extension and securing separation
in the accounting, storekeeping and paid staffs. These
last he would not agree to. Most of them we dropped,
but we decided to fight for separate accounting, believing
that the rest would follow automatically.
In the end,
the following resolutions were brought forward by us,
seconded by the President and unanimously agreed to by
the Executive Committee of the Royal Flying Corps Hospital
at a Meeting held on the 25th September,:-
(1)