HOSPITAL BOARDS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 34, 10 February 1939, Page 6

HOSPITAL BOARDS

CONFERENCE CONCLUDES

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, February 9. The business of the conference of the jNew Zealand Hospital Boards Association was concluded in New Plymouth this morning, delegates being taken on a sight-seeing tour in the borough and environs during the afternoon. Remits relating to the operation of the Social Security Act were referred to the executive with a request that it' co-opt five executive officers of boards to assist in preparing a case to be presented to the Minister. The creation of a national council against tuberculosis was the subject of a Palmerston North remit that was carried unanimously. The remit sought the early formulation of a treatment scheme and investigation of accommodation. A South Otago remit that the incidence of taxation in respect of hospital board finance be revised so that the burden falls more equitably upon the community was carried. The conference approved a Waiapu remit that the Government subsidy to boards should be influenced by the proportion of non-rate-paying Native land in the districts. Unanimous support was accorded a Mangonui proposal that it would be the duty of maintenance officers or police to follow up every case in which a maintenance order was made to see that payments were made in accordance with the order. Matters raised by a deputation from the New Zealand Trained Nurses' Association and remits relating to salaries and the living-in of nurses were referred to the executive for consideration.