HOSPITAL RATING
LACK OF UNIFORMITY
(P.A.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Dec. 2. -
"Men 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 Waitara 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. Poison, M.P., who criticised the present method of maintaining hospitals under a system of direct taxation on ratepayers in each hospital district. It was unfortunate, said Mr. Poison, that hospital fates had to be increased because of the demands on benefits accruing from the operation of the Social Security Act.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 134, 3 December 1941, Page 14
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151HOSPITAL RATING Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 134, 3 December 1941, Page 14
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