HOSPITAL RATING.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 83, 9 April 1929, Page 9

HOSPITAL RATING.

FAIRER SYSTEM NEEDED.

MINISTER'S ADMISSION

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, this dav

The assurance that he recognises the necessity for evolving a betu-r system of hospital rating, and that personally he will lca*e no stone unturned to gne statutory effect to a fairer basis of taxation, should a system be found which is in the interests of all local authorities, was given by the Minister of Health, the Hon. A. J. Stallworthy, to a deputation representing the majority of the counties of the South Island. He said he appreciated the case put by the deputation, but he would have to analyse the position further. They would not be satisfied until they got a more equitable basis of rating, if ho were gixen time, as Minister of Health, a seiious effort would be made to bring about a better basis for hospital finances. The Government had a tremendous programme ahead of it, but he was satisfied it was absolutely imperative that we should evolve the best hospital rating system possible. He thought that it' a scheme were brought down it would be a good course for it to be submitted to a conference of local bodies before it was adopted.