The Auckland Hospital And Charitable Aid Board was constituted in November, 1885. Its duties comprise finding the funds for the maintenance of the Hospital, the administration of charitable aid, and the control of some of the various charitable organisations of Auckland. The Board is empowered to make demands on local bodies to meet its actual requirements, and the amounts thus raised are subsidised pound for pound by the Government, which in 1900 was liable for £6675 in this way. The Board consists of ten members, and the following gentlemen were elected on the 28th of November, 1900:—Messrs John Court, James Jamieson, James Stichbury, and Young Warren, representing the Auckland City Council; Mr. Alexander Bruce, the Devonport Borough Council and the Waitemata County Council; Messrs Thomas Allen and John Bollard, representing the road boards in the county of Eden; Mr. Arthur Pearson Friend, the borough councils of Grey Lynn, New-market, Parnell, and Birkenhead; Messrs George Joseph Garland and John Gordon, representing the Onehunga Borough Council and the boards of the road districts in the county of Manukau. Mr. Alexander Bruce is chairman, and Mr. H. N. Garland, secretary.