HOSPITAL RATING
OVERHAUL ADVOCATED BY MR J. N. MASSEY I From Our Parliamentary Reporter! Ji WELLINGTON, July 21. An overhaul of the incidence of hospital rating was advocated by Mr J. N. Massey (Opposition, Franklin) during the Address-in-Reply debate in the House of Representatives to-day. Hospital rates, he said, were increasing year by year and becoming a burden that farmers and property owners were unable to carry. . , Mr Massey said that local body taxation had increased by leaps and bounds. It was necessary to study the ability of the ratepayer to pay. Rate charges in the county of which he was chairman amounted in 1932 to £32,000, and by the year 1938-39 they had increased to £49,000. Hospital rating was becoming an intolerable burden on the community. The incidence of it was entirely wrong and the time had arrived when the whole system should be overhauled. In every part of New Zealand, hospitals were overcrowded, and in Auckland and Wellington the hospital boards were going in for building, extension. As a result of the social security legislation there would be an increased demand for hospital accommodation.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22769, 22 July 1939, Page 4
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