SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS
ADDRESS BY MISS M. B. HOWARD AT HOKITIKA Social security benefits were outlined by the Minister of Health (Miss M. B. Howard) at a meeting attended by about 300 persons in the Regent Theatre, Hokitika. The next thing in view, she said, was an ambulance cover of New Zealand under social security. The Labour candidate for the Westland by-election (Mr J. B. Kent) had already been worrying her for an ambulance and district nurse for South Westland, she added. Mental Hospitals Miss Howard said she understood that the Seaview Mental Hospital, Hokitika, was a “happy place,” because it was made up of villas. The new Lake Alice Hospital, near Marton, would also consist of villas and could be made large enough to take all North Island patients. For the betterment of conditions for patients in mental hospitals, canteens, a comtorts fund, and brightened furnishings had been introduced, and the sum of £40,000 had been set aside to supply individual styles of clothing and get away from the “institution uniform.” A vote of thanks was passed to Miss Howard.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25346, 20 November 1947, Page 5
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