OPPOSITION TO LOAN.
Per Press Association. OAMARU, Jan. 24. A motion was carried by six votes to two at a meeting of the Waitaki Hospital Board in favour of applying to the Loans Board for a loan ot £BO,000 to carry out extensions arid instal equipment at the Oamaru Public Hospital. The Waitaki County Council and the Oamaru Borough Council have withheld consent to the loan till plans and specifications have been placed before contributing authorities. The hospital board has also received petitions circulated by the Farmers’ Union throughout North Otago and signed by 405 ratepayers and two other petitions signed by 56 ratepayers emphatically protesting against- the loan. Half of the £BO.OOO is to Ive found by the hospital district and half bv the Government. The protests will be forwarded with the application for the loan to the Loans Board.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 48, 25 January 1939, Page 7
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141OPPOSITION TO LOAN. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 48, 25 January 1939, Page 7
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