POLITICAL NOTES
ITEMS FROM THE HOUSE. HOSPITAL BUILDINGS. EXPENDITURE CURTATLED. BY TELEGRAPH —SPECIAL TO THE STAR. WELLINGTON, Aug. 9. Dealing with, hospital KsUbsi-dies during the debate on itlie Budget, the Minister of Health, the Hon. J. A. Young, .said tltait there would be an increase this year. The capital requirements of the boards this year would toe £135,000 more than last year. Half of the money would come front the consolidated .revenue and the other halt fronr the local bodies. So far as capital expenditure wins concerned tire Minister waiid that he and hi® department had: urged the boards to economise*, and .this year they had deferred expenditcTe on new buildings toy £250,000.
SUMMER-TIME INNOVATIONS FARMERS’ WIVES PROTEST.
Delegates tq the annual conference r.f the women’s division of the Farmers’ Union have forwarded a hostile petition on the Summer-time Bill. The principle of daylight-saving, they declare, would be harmful to the wives and children of farmers, inasmuch a*s such an innovation would seriously interfere with household and school duties and with the health of country women and children whose lot is much harder than that of the women anti children in the towns. There are 60 signatures to this pretest.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 10 August 1927, Page 5
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