HOSPITAL EXPENDITURE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 72, 24 March 1908, Page 7

HOSPITAL EXPENDITURE.

TFTR YEAR'S ESTIMATES.

> The estimates for the year 1908-9, in temnection witi the Auckland Hospital cad Charitable Aid Board, were present■ed at yesterday afternoon's meeting of /&s Board. The position is estimated jirom ilarch 31st of the present year. :3Ste estimated income for the twelve Saoaths, including the credit balance .araflable at the end of the present month, 5£2921 4/3, amounted to a total of '£7971 This sum included £3000 as the estimated amount to be collected in hosvSSalfees, £800 from Costley Home fees, jtflaO from Charitaahle Aid fees, and isllfloo- from Old Age Pensions. This {estimated total income of £7971 4/3 left kbdance of £26,903 15/9, to meet the itE&aaAed i The expenditure, it was anticipated, |*Sr amount to £34,875 for the year, .jSospital maintenance, it is estimated, cost £ 17,500, hospital buildings Costley Home maintenance .-*£ffiooi Costley Home buildings £ 600. Xfcaritailfi. Aid £4000. office and miscel£900, Alexandra Home £500, |feniifore, new beds,- extensions, etc., ji£2sQ, interest on new loan £ 1125. 16----]5aL expenditure \£ I Hie capital rvalne of the ratable profc the hospital district, as ascertained from the Valuation Office, is $£13,710,400. One-sixth of a penny in see £ would realise £13,657 16/1, and for. £ subsidy a like amount of 16/1.. of expendi- -^ re - for the eleven months ending Feb29, gave the total receipts at £.33,----g8 17/2, including £1985 13/7 balance *f at the beginning of tbe ftnanjs"; jear. Hospital fees during that period amounted to £3334 Costley gome fees £856; Old Age Pensions •.™3> Benevolent Society's contribution •frun-snbsidy £1147. local bodies' contri(ordinary) £10,309, (infectious) !.—476.--- The voluntary contributions ■ B WJmitedto £58 3/, while ordinary subSgies were responsible for £14,494 and Sections £476. The receipts also inanded a sum of £500, being a special ea^ i - for the Alexandra Home. 3VGsou s items brougM up the total to **>,35S 17/2. The expenditure during Of S? Je P eriod amounts to £29,835 5/4. J™ 8 sum hospital maintenance cost buildings £160, observation £Z596, Alexandra Home £567, maintenance £6253, ChariAid £3609, and benevolent sodetSl^ 68 " 7 aie tank balance on Febru--was £5523 11/.

Bor g°U:e, a merrier of the 'i&ZTS'f Borough Council, -who' Is : h»^s^j leava oa a holiday trip to the f£^ G °? ntr y; was granted six months' rSr*>f£teence at last niglifs meetijjg