WELLINGTON HOSPITAL.
CHARGES REDUCED. Per Press Association. . WELLINGTON. Sept. 10. Reductions in practically all fees for treatment at the Wellington Hospital were made l>v the hospital Board tonight. The item of widest application is the charge for in-patients, which was brought down from 12s to 9s per day. Other charges were scaled down bv as much as 50 per cent. The new rates will come into operation on January 1, 1936. subject to the approval of the Minister of Health.
The reductions are virtually a reversion to the scale in force seven or eight years ago, and are the result of representations by the Labour majority on the board.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 243, 11 September 1935, Page 11
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