HIGHER RATES?
AUCKLAND HOSPITAL BOARD RELENTS. (SPECIAL TO "THE TBEB3. ') AUCKLAND, April 28. Second thoughts are likely to sway the Auckland Hospital Board from its decision to increase the levy on local bodies from .25d in the £to .2-Sd The valuation of the district has increases from £73,354.370 to £80,634,277, and the Board's new levy would produce £97,073, compared with £76,442 last year. Local bodies did not hesitate to express their alarm at the proposed increase. with the result that a week after its first announcement the Board held a special meeting and instructed the secretary to prepare fresh estimates. It was suggested at the meeting that the maintenance account and expenditure estimates might be reduced from £214.929 to £200,319 or by £14,610. The chief suggested reductions were approximately £IO,OOO on hospital maintenance. £2600 on infirmarv maintenance, £6OO on infirmary laundry, and £250 on the dental hospital.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18678, 29 April 1926, Page 8
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