WAR VETERANS’ HOMES
Refusal Of Building Subsidy GOVERNMENT POLICY CRITICISED (New Zealand Press Assih AUCKLAND, December 2. “Penny wise and pound foolish” was the description given to the Government’s attitude to war veterans’ homes by Mr C. O. Bell, representing the New Zealand Patriotic Fund Board, at the opening of a new wing of the veterans’ home at Three Kings today. Because of this attitude, he said, sick and wounded men who required full hospital care could no longer be cared for in the board’s homes, and would have to go to public hospitals.
An application for the £1 for £1 subsidy on building costs similar to that given to other organisations catering for the sick and needy had been declined by the Government, he said. Had the board been given the subsidy it would have continued to cater for those requiring full hospital attention. It cost £lO 10s a week to keep a patient in th) present homes who required hospital attention, but it cost twice as much to attend to him in the public hospitals. By giving a subsidy to the homes the Government could recoup its initial outlay within 10 "years. It was honed that further representations would be made to the Government.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27213, 3 December 1953, Page 10
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