ESTIMATES PASSED

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 120, 22 May 1940, Page 7

ESTIMATES PASSED

HOSPITAL BOARD

MINOR AMENDMENTS

The Wellington Hospital Board, at a special meeting last night, passed the necessary resolution adopting the estimates for the year 1940-41, as tentatively agreed upon at its last meeting, with the following amendments: —The sum of £15,000 was added to receipts, in anticipation of extra payments from the Social Security Fund, and to capital expenditure there was added £6000 for equipment for the Hutt Valley Hqspital and £6000 for additional equipment for the Wellington Hospital. The levies already. apportioned to the contributory local authorities stand, but the subsidy payable by the Government is reduced by £3000, the result being that the amount of subsidy per £1 of capital levy is reduced from 19s 2d to 18s sd. The above alterations, said the chairman, Mr. J. Glover, had been recommended by the finance committee. The equipment for Wellington Hospital would be extra beds that the board would be called upon to find in the near future. The amounts the contributory local authorities will be called upon to find are as follows:— Wellington City Council £94 449 Us 4d; Hutt County Council' £7172 11s 4d; Makara County Council' £2529 9s 8d; Lower Hutt Borough Council, £12,483 16s 10d; Petone Boroufih Council, £6533 17s 8d; Eastbourne Borough Council, £1457 9s lOd; Johnsbnville Town Board, £737 19s; Upper Hutt Borough Council, £1701 14s. Total, £127,066 9s Bd.