OTAKI HOSPITAL.
PROPOSAL TO CLOSE IT
DISCUSSED WITH MINISTER. (BY TELEGRAPH. PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, March 27. A deputation waited on the Hon. J. A. Young, Minister of Health, at Otaki to protest against a proposal to close the hospital there. Mr. Field, M.P., said that the hospital could be made to pay its way if it were run properly and. the patients not taken away from it to Palmerston North, it had as much right to exisr tence a,s institutions at Masterton and Gaiiterrton . If it were closed Die land Should b© given back to the Maoris, who had given it. What they wanted was to collect their own rates and manage the place as a hospital board. "Others spoke in support of this, and Sir J. Wilson and others against the proposal. The Minister said he was against economy at the expense of efficiency, but they had already 48 hospital districts and they must not have too many. Separate districts would be much more expensive. He hoped that an amicable arrangement would be come to.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 27 March 1926, Page 9
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176OTAKI HOSPITAL. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 27 March 1926, Page 9
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