CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917 — Page 578

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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)