LOCAL BODY GRANTS
BRITISH GOVT.’S BILL [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS] RUGBY, February 24. In commending to the House of Commons the bill which incorporates the revised formula for the distribution of the Exchequer’s stock grants to local authorities, announced recently, the Minister for Health (Sir Kingsley Wood) said that the proposals represented the result of much patience and laborious work on the part of local authorities, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health. The proposals should be regarded as still further strengthening the local Government system, placing its relations with the Exchequer on an improved basis, and bringing substantial aid to. those areas of the country whose need was greatest. Local authorities in special and necessitous areas would obtain substantial assistance.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 February 1937, Page 7
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120LOCAL BODY GRANTS Greymouth Evening Star, 26 February 1937, Page 7
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