Use of funds

Press, 12 February 1982, Page 12

Use of funds

Sir, — My employer, the North Canterbury Hospital Board is, like many other Gov-ernment-sponsored groups, short of funds and is likely to be shorter still in the next estimates. The Government can squander multi-millions of dollars on stock-piling wool and purchasing butter and then more or less dump it to no advantage to anyone but the National-orientated farming community. A happy people is a healthy people and, of course, the reverse must also be true so why not direct these large amounts of money in the right direction, to the citizens of New Zealand in the form of the eight hospital boards, which would, I can assure you, put it to much better use than the Wool Board, the Dairy Board, and even the Apple and Pear Board. I don’t know just,how much money is wasted in this manner, but it must be in excess of $5O million — approximately $6 million for each hospital board. What a boost that would be. — Yours, etc.,

R. P. FIELD. February 10, 1982.