WELLINGTON LEADS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 83, 4 October 1930, Page 10

WELLINGTON LEADS

IN UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF

( THE STATE SUBSIDY

Information furnished to the member for Avon, Mr. D. Or. Sullivan, by the Minister of Public Works (the Hon. W. B. Taverner) shows that since Ist April this year the Government has paid £47,285 to local bodies by way of subsidy. ■ The Wellington district was the largest beneficiary, having received £26,----911. Auckland had received £1277. Christchureh £8815, Dunedin £9676, and Invercargill £606. Details of subsidies to local bodies in. the Wellington district are as follow:— . £ Wellington City Council 21,700 Petone Borough Council 1,30S Eastbourne Borough Council .. 200 Upper Hutt Borough Council.. 720 Lower Hutt Borough Council .. 2,983 Total . £26,911 Mr. Taverner also pointed out that a total of £5180 had been raised by the Forbury Park Trotting Club for unemployment relief a a sperial meeting, the Auckland Trotting Club's special meeting realising £ 7494. Government taxes were remitted in both instances. The number of men employed by the four chief city councils on relief works was given as follows:—Auckland 20, Wellington 478, Christchurch 29, Dunodin 54. The Wellington City Council has also provided work for 220 returned soldiers through the Eeturued Soldiers' Association, and not placed through the Labour Bureau.

Time worked by men employed by. the Duncdin City Council by arraugeinent with the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board totalled 3502 days.- In some cases, however, the men had worked for only a few hours at a time. The numbers placed with the city eo-uncils since Ist April through the Labour Bureau wero: Auckland 14, Wellington 319, Christchurch 401, Dunedin 77.

way, the principal of the M( Gill University, and the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of M' Gill. These gentlemen elect by name the other governors, and it is needless to say that the ones elected comprise some of the best brains in Canada. The gentlemen on this board of governors are not subjected to any political influence, do not have to submit to popular election at frequent intervals, and havo made a special study of tho problems of hospital control. Their superintendent is a banker. Tlieir medical advisers arc the heads of departments, appointed aa such by the governors, und formed into a medical board.

Tho hospital is a community hospital and treats exactly the same type of case as Wellington Hospital, .handling over 14,000 patients of all kinds in t% course of the £ea»,