LOCAL DISTRESS
RATEPAYERS SHOULD BEAR THEIR SHARE. PRIME MINISTER’S CONTENTION Wellington, June 26. While announcing that the Government had decided nob to depart from the existing Statutory method of subsidising hospital boards’ exiienditurc, the Primo Minister to-day, in a letter received by the Wellington Hospital Board, intimated that legislation would bo brought down this session to deal with the unemployment problem and it was confidently hoped that as a result the incidence of outoor relief would be substantially reduced. Tho Prime Minister’s letter was in reply to a deputation from Auckland and Wellington Hospital Boards which waited upon him recently regarding the contention that unemployment relief should not be a tax on the local ratepayers, but on the Consolidated Fund. The Prime Minister pointed out that that fund was already bearing half the cost t>f such relief in the case of hospital boards, and .in addition. a proportion of the expenditure incurred by local bodies. It was considered equitable that the local ratepayers should bear a. share of the responsibility for local distress.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 162, 28 June 1930, Page 2
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173LOCAL DISTRESS Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 162, 28 June 1930, Page 2
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