The Chief Executive of Southern District Health Board, Brian Rousseau, was planning to resign from his post by the end of the year. Mr. Rousseau had served as the Chairman of the organisation for eight years, earlier he was in the panel of Otago.

Mr. Rousseau was going to quit from his duties two weeks after the Government’s National Health Board would take some decision on the issue of development of another health service centre at Wakatipu. Joe Butterfield was going to be appointed as the next Chairman of Southern District Health Board.

The delay in taking a firm and unanimous decision over the Queensland health services was believed to be political pressures and the major problem was that only 50% of the board agreed over bringing changes in the system, the rate of support was not fair enough to derive at any conclusion.

The agenda of health centre in Wakatipu was a long dragged affair with the board, as two months back Mr. Rousseau had called for a meeting at Queensland, which was attended by 400 members, in order to discuss the redevelopment of Frankton’s Lakes District Hospital into an Integrated Family Health Centre. As the board had arrived at no conclusion the successor of Rousseau Mr. Butterfield assured to enact the replacement after he took hold of the charge as a chairman.