Subsidies Granted
(N.Z. Press Association)
WELLINGTON, October 15. Further Government subsidies are to be made available to the Plunket Society, the Minister of Health (Mr McKay) announced today.
The Government had agreed to meet the society superannuation contributions on the salaries of its staff from October 1, 1969, he said.
The Government already met 66 2/3 per cent of the salaries of Plunket nurses and 50 per. cent of the salaries of head office medical and clerical staff. This was in addition to capital and other subsidies available to the society for its Karitane hospitals. Mr McKay said other requests from the society for a review of subsidy policy were still under consideration. A subsidy of $110,400 had been granted to the Wanganui Intellectually Handicapped Children’s Society towards the cost of providing a hostel and short-stay home for 46 intellectually handicapped persons, Mr McKay said. The subsidy, which was calculated at the rate of $2400 a bed, would help the society to meet a need for the intellectually handicapped in the south Taranaki, Taihape, Taupo, Manawatu, and southern Hawke’s Bay districts. It would also meet the needs of New Plymouth until a hostel for intellectually handicapped persons was built in that city.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32120, 16 October 1969, Page 2
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