HOSPITAL LEVIES
UNIFORM N.Z. RATE FORECAST BY MINISTER (Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. “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 social service more than the community in another locality,” said the Minister of Health, the Hon. A. 11. Nordmeyer, in sugggesting at 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 matfernity hospital by Mr. W. J. Poison, M.P., who criticised the present method of maintaining hospitals under a system of direct taxation upon ratepayers in each hospital district. It was unfortunate, said Mr. Poison, that hospital rates had to be increased because of the demand on the benefits accruing from the operation of the Social, Security Act. » I
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20629, 3 December 1941, Page 4
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162HOSPITAL LEVIES Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20629, 3 December 1941, Page 4
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