HOSPITAL BOARDS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 68, 21 March 1931, Page 11

HOSPITAL BOARDS

MEETING LOSSES

SPECIAL LEGISLATION

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NAPIER, This Day. Special legislation is being prepared to provide for Electing the losses of hospital "boards in-the stricken area, according 5o Mr. C. O. Morse, chairman of the Hospital .Board., who spent two days in Wellington this week. The proposed measures, he stated this morning, should be very satisfactory to all the parties concerned. The boards affected were the Hawkes Bay, Wairoa, Waipawa, Waipukurau, and Dannevirke bodies. A suggestion put to the Prime Minister and. the. central control committee by Mr. Morse was that all the relieffunds should be disposed of by 'the hospital and charitable aid boards,, especially the grants for personal needs, such as food and clothing. It was contended by Mr. Morse that the boards wore fitted to undertake this work, and ho also pointed out that their scope ombraced the whole of the population in the affected-area. . . ' While in Wellington Mr. Morse, together /with Mr. W. E. Barnard,_ M.P., made representations to the Minister." of Labour, the Hon. S. G. Smith, who is also chairman of the Unemployment Board, that an extension b.e granted for the disposal of. £5000 granted to the Napier Unemployment Committee for expcnd.ituy,'. in Napier and Hastings. Further moneys to keep the people .of this district in employment wore also asked for. It is hoped that decisions on. these two points will be received within a few days.