Hospital Board Estimates

Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 30, 27 April 1934, Page 4

Hospital Board Estimates

The following estimated receipts and expenditure for the coming year were submitted to the Mangonui Hospital Board at its meeting last week by the secretary, Mr. W. H. Atkins :

Receipts—Maintenance Subsidy on maintenance levies outstanding, £638 16/1; Patients’ payments, £1500; Charitable aid recoveries, £120; Rents, interest and dividends, £26; Subsidy on attendance on natives, £81; Maintenance levies on local authorities, £2550; Maintenance subsidies, £3141 10/5; Making a total of £8057 6/6.

Payments—Maintenance Overdraft, £l7l 11/6; Hospital maintenance, £5700; Charitable aid, outdoor, £700; District and native nursing, £300; Administration, £560; Amounts paid to other Boards, £300; Rent, rates and taxes, £4l 12/; Interest on loans, including bank overdraft, (a) capital £lO4 4/11, (b) maintenance £ls; Board’s contributions to National Provident Fund, £25; Refund of subsidy, £9 1/5; Miscellaneous payments, £49 16/8; Attendance on natives, £81; Making a total of £8057 6/6.

Receipts—Capital Cash in bank, £3OB 3/11; Voluntary contributions, £62 16/1; Receipts from special funds for disbursement, £450; Amounts received from sale of capital assets, £SO; Capital levies on local authorities, £455 6/3; Capital subsidies, £455 6/3; a Total of £l7Bl 12/6. Payments—Capital Loans, repayment of principal or sinking fund, £550 12/6; Capital works, £1231; a Total of £l7Bl 12/6. The levy on the local bodies has been decreased for maintenance charges, but a levy has been made under capital heading; no levy was made under this heading last year. This year £3005 is to be levied on the local bodies (£2740 from the County and £265 from the Town Board), an increase of £l5O over last year Against this £650 is being repayed by way of interest and sinking fund on the loan of £3OOO for the removal oi the hospital. After the estimates had been read, members remarked that the secretary’s estimates had proved very accurate last year, as also the year before; he had been as near in his estimates as it was humanly possible to be. The estimates were passed with little discussion, the secretary stating in response to a question that allowance had been made for contingencies in the removal of the hospital.

At the beginning of the road leading up to the old Mangonui hospital at Mangonui there is a sign, “No Exit.” It must have given many a patient a bad shock. Again! Just before entering the Russell main street, a sign says, “Next 300 yards Dead Slow.” We have often wondered whether it’s true or not.

They Ought to be More Careful