HOSPITALS BILL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 124, 18 February 1908, Page 8

HOSPITALS BILL.

' V'."-: V -r ■ SOME OBJECTIONS IN TARANAKI. tnr TEt.EaßArn—srKciiL correspondbmt.)

■ - ,! " New Plymouth, Fobruary 17., A conference of delegates from the Hawera, Stratford, and Taranalii Hospital Boards, to consider the proposed Hospital and Charitable Institutions, Billj -propounded by the Hon. Geo., Fowlcls, passed tlio. following resolution:—That tbis conference, .whilst endorsing the desirability, of amending tho present enactments'.dealing with hospitals and charitable aid, are of, opinion that the draft Bill now before' them ..requires, careful ror vision in its'most important features; that Soction 3, bo deleted, and, that tho districts remain, as al present'; ..that Jocal bodies ( who have to provide' rtionoy for maintenance of thes9'institutions should elect their representative's,to tho Boards ;.] that provision bo mado in the Act for recovery of cost of maintenance: from the persons troated by' tho Board which.' is.'liable; that .provision bo made ''in, tho Actj giving Boards power.to recover, cost of hospital'mMiifaiiiance' out of sums ,due'to patients under, the- Workers' Compensationfor Accidents Act/,_ !With regard ,to boundaries, it is only, a ,few years sinco.Hawera and Stratford, by .much agitation', . secured severance from. Tariinaki district, and those new Boards are distinctly unfavourable to p return to the old system 'then obtaining. The New Plymouth delegates favoured tho change, wluchj if ofFccted,, will make New Plymouth Hospital the principal hospital in the district in 1 law; as well as in fact. '