HOSPITAL LEVIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXV, Issue 12913, 15 July 1936, Page 2

HOSPITAL LEVIES.

REQUEST FOR REVISION PET ONE COUNCIL’S ATTITUDE The hospital levy has always caused a. considerable amount of discussion at the Borough Council, and this subject cropped up again last- evening from an entirely different direction, a protest being) made by the ketone Boron,Ht Council, tho town clerk, of which wrote as follows: “In view of the ever increasing burden that is being placed upon boroughs and counties in. this country through Hospital Board levies there is a growing opinion that the time has come when the incidence of the maintenance of hospital and charitable 'aid boards should bo altered. “This matter was considered by my council at its last- meeting when concern was expressed at the extraon! nnry increase in this year’s hospital levy, and the certainty of further large increases, in the future, The following, resolution was passed: “That the incidence oa tjie costs of hospital board administration should be reviewed as an urgent matter, in the direction of relieving rate, payers from part or the whole of the burden arising from such costs, and llial the municipal association be urged to make representations on the above subject to the Government.”

Tbp support of the council Avas- asked to Iliis motion. 'The Mayor said it seemed that the loiter asked the- Municipal Assocun lion to urge upon the Government to hike ovi r the control of hospitals, to be- maintained from the' Consolidated revenue. That oil course, would not soaic the ratepayers for he Avould pay all the same. He moved that the council favored the resolution asking the Municipal Association, to take up the matter.

Cr. J. IT. Hall, in, seconding the motion, said it was a forward move. He 1 Jtougli t it was the duty of tho State to take over the hospitals and administer them, so as to, equip the community with conditions conducive to good health. The motion was canted.

At the meeting of the AVaikohu Counf.v Council yesterday the t-oAvn clerk-, Pctpne Borough Council, wrote asking the council to -support a resolution asking the council to review the- incidence of tho costs of hospital administration with the object ofi relieving the pressure on the ratepayers. The clerk of the Opotiki County Counc'l ivrotc on the same matter and requested the council’s sympathetic support.—lt was decided to support the resolution.