HIGHER RATE.
GOVERNMENT LEGISLATION. REACTION BY HOSPITAL. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Friday. Capital expenditure of more than £100,000, involving an increase in hospital rating of 42.3 per cent, is expected to be the result of the Government's social security legislation, according to a report of a special committee of the Taranaki Hospital Board. Extra ward accommodation is estimated to cost £30,000, administrative and outpatients' block £25.000, maternity block £15,000, staff accommodation £30,000, and other extensions £2500, a total of £102.500. To finance this sum and pay additional staff would cost £29,604 annually, of which it is estimated £19,589 would be provided by the Government, leaving £10,015 to be levied on the ratepayers.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 208, 3 September 1938, Page 10
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