HOSPITAL BOARD SUBSIDY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 7 November 1938, Page 4

HOSPITAL BOARD SUBSIDY

ITo The Editor! Sir. —I notice in your issue of 20th October that the Hospital Board has granted a subsidy to the Takaka Private Hospital. I wish to call attention to . the fact that this hospital was subsid- > ised for years, but that the subsidy was i renounced and the hospital closed be- . cause those in charge disagreed with i the conditions under which the subsidy ■ j was paid. At a public meeting in I Takaka a motion was moved that the . proprietor be asked to reopen the hospital and that the subsidy be renewed. Tliis was defeated. A further effort in this direction was made by the deputaj lion which waited upon the Board at I their meeting in March 1937. The | Board did not act upon the suggestion. Manifestly because the proprietor objected to Ihe conditions. Why then has , the Board subsidised the hospital? The , public is entitled to know. Has it , changed its policy, or has it simply hit upon this expedient as a further and last effort to provide an excuse whereby the* establishment of the cottage hospital may be further delayed?—l am, etc., “PRO BONO PUBLICO.” Takaka, 4th November.