HOSPITAL FINANCE
ART UNIONS PROPOSED COUNTIES' DIFFICULTIES (By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.") '■ PALMERSTON N.; This Day. By a majority vote, the Palroerston North Hospital Board decided yesterday to ask the Hospital Boards' Association to reopen the question of holding art uuions as a''means of supplementing the present method of hospital financing.The matter was raised by a letter received from the Manawtitu County Council which was id favour of such a proposal. The letter pointed out that money was raised by that means in other couu? tries for hospital work. Further, the huge sums of money going out of New Zealand for art unions and the like, could well be used to relieve the taxpayers of the Dominion. ' • ... The chairman (Mr. J. K. Hornbiow) said there was no reason why the Wellington City Council should not raise money, in this way, if it liked, but it would be a-sad.day if an assured system of financing hospitals was done away withi Mr. J. Boyce said it was a question of how long local bodies could stand up to the continual; drain. Last year the Manawatu County had struck a levy of £2110 for its share of the hospital finance, but had collected only £1963. A big meeting of county ratepayers had endorsed the idea of art unions which would not jeopardise the present system. . i
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 119, 23 May 1933, Page 6
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225HOSPITAL FINANCE Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 119, 23 May 1933, Page 6
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