DIVERTED FUNDS
ACTION AGAINST COUNCIL
P.A. WHANGAREI, This Day. Following the receipt of advice from the Minister of Finance (Mr. Nash) that subsidies due to the' council by the Public Works and Valuation Departments are to be diverted to the Mangonui Hospital Board, the Mangonui County Council yesterday decided to suspend maintenance on the main highways within its area.
The letter from the Minister stated that the diversion had been arranged under Section 51 of the Hospital and Charitable Institutions Act, 1926, following information that the council had decided not to pay its allocation of the hospital levies for the current financial year. The action had been taken at the Hospital Board's request, the Minister stated.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 95, 19 October 1944, Page 8
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116DIVERTED FUNDS Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 95, 19 October 1944, Page 8
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