"UNJUST BURDEN"
HOSPITAL RATING CHANGE IN SYSTEM URGED A remit asking the Government to substitute a more equitable tax vol" the present system of hospital taxation was unanimously carried at thcNorth Taranaki .Farmers' Union, conference at Inglewood. Delegates expressed strong criti. cism of the present system which, they contended < placed an unjust burden on ratepayers in rural dis. tricts. Farmers were being heavily penalised by hospital taxation, which had increased greatly during the past few years, said Mr G. L. Grey. Oakur.a. It would increase very much more under the social security schema for he understood that the Taranaki Hospital Board was faced with an expenditure 01 £100,000 in b lilding. He moved that the Governm nt substitute an increase in the si cial security tax to maintain public hospi. tals. Taranaki county ratep; /ers, he said r were already paying £5000, and while the farmer paid the 'ate, the mortgagee to whom, he pah 1 interest escaped very lightly. Under his proposal the upkeep of the hospitals would be a direct charge on everyone.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 24, 14 June 1939, Page 7
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