HOSPITAL TAXATION
Minister On Possible Change (By Telegraph- I’l-e-s Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH. December 2. “Mon and women of all political parties will agree that there is something wrong about a system that allows people in one locality to be taxed for a social service more than a community in another locality.” said the Minister of Health, Mr. Nordmeyer, in suggesting in AA’aitara that the time was not far distant when a uniform rate for hospital expenditure should apply over all districts in the Dominion. The Minister was replying to an observation made earlier in the ceremony of the opening of a maternity hospital by Mr. Polson, M.P., who criticized the present method of maintaining hospitals under a system of direct taxation on ratepayers in each hospital district. .It was unfortunate, said Mr. Polson, that hospital rates had to -be increased because of the demand on benefits accruing from.the operation of the Social Security Act.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 59, 3 December 1941, Page 8
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