BELIEF PAYMENTS
BURDEN ON HOSPITAL BOARD. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, April 18. The Hospital Board last year had a deficit of £10,410 compared with £28,800 in 1932-33 and £53,000 in 1931-32. The chairman (Mr Wallace) said it was estimated that the exchange a.nd sales tax had cost the board £4OOO or £SOOO a year. There was no sign of a slackening in the board’s relief payments. Normal expenditure on relief would average about £20,000, but the board was now spending £46,000 annually. In seven years relief payments had exceeded tho normal expenditure in this branch by £250,000. In 1932 the payments amounted to £92,896, exceeding the total maintenance levy on local bodies which was £91,223.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 118, 18 April 1934, Page 8
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115BELIEF PAYMENTS Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 118, 18 April 1934, Page 8
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