HOSPITAL BOARD LEVY
£20,038/3/7 to be Collected <3 RECORD RATE THIS YEAR PROPER SERVICE FOR SICK PEOPLE An increase of 25.5 per cent, in the hospital levy on contributing local authorities was decided upon at Tuesday’s meeting of the Thames Hospital Board making the total amount to be collected £20,028/3//, representing a levy of .724 d. in the £ on rateable capital levy is the highest ever made by the board but as was explained by the chairman, Mr J. W. Danby, the cost of maintaining the institutions under the board s control has risen considerably during the past twelve months and is still rising and the amount required is the least with which the proper service to the sick people oi the district can be maintained. Large increases in wages together with substantial rises in the prices of necessary provisions, etc., are, said the chairman, mainly to blame but the Thames Board was not the only one affected in the Dominion as the general trend in all districts was for considerable increases in levy.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 55, Issue 32703, 17 April 1946, Page 5
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