§ Considered in Committee.
§ Bill reported, without Amendment.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed. "That the Bill be now read the Third Time."
§ Mr. KINGIt is a very unusual thing to bring in a Bill dealing with a charity which is only about twenty-five years old. In this case the Bill is for the object, of uniting two hospitals under one trust. I should have thought myself that the large district which these hospitals cover might very well have done With two hospitals. I want to ask -whether public attention has been called to this amalgamation, and whether the Charity Commissioners themselves took any steps, beyond a merely formal advertisement in the corner of a newspaper where nobody reads, to satisfy the law? I hope it is generally known in the locality that a change of this important character is being carried out.
§ Mr. C. P. ALLENI can only say m reply to the hon. Member that the promoters of this Bill are the governing bodies of the two hospitals concerned, mid they came to the conclusion that the amalgamation was in the interests, not 2812 only of the two hospitals but of the whole district concerned. The scheme was then framed and all possible means of making it known were taken through the usual means, and there was no opposition of any kind whatever.