COST OF HOSPITALS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20251, 10 May 1929, Page 14

COST OF HOSPITALS.

THE WAIKATO INSTITUTION

LEVY OF £35.000 THIS YEAR

[I)V TKLEORAPH. —OWN coil RESPONDENT.] HAMILTON, Thursday Tho amount to bo raised by tho Waikato Hospital Board for tho current year by way of levy on local bodies is £54,776 13s lOd. Tho amount levied last year was £34,733 16s 6d, tho increase iu tho levy being £42 17s 4d. The Government subsidy for tho current year will bo £28,445 16s Id, compared with £27,718 0s 3d last year. Tho apportionment of tho levy for this year will bo as follows; —Hamilton Borough, £5024 12s 6d; Waipa County, £4921 17s Od; Waikato County, £4741 15s 9d; Piako County, .3939 Is 9d; Raglan County, £3165 7s Id, Matamata County, £2542 3s 8d; Waitomo County, £2064 19s lid; Otorohanga County, £1672 lis 6d; Rotorua Borough, £1132 Is lid; Rotorua County, £704 is 3d; Cambridge Borough, £653 5s lOd ; Kawhia County, £622 Os 4d , To Aroha Borough, £574 12s lOd; To Awatnutu Borough, £529 6s sd; Morrinsville Borough, £SOO 4s 4d; To iiuiti Borough, 19s lOd; Matamata Town District, £349 Is fad; Xaupo Uounty, £327 Is lid; iiuntly lown District, £233 12s 9d; Ngai uavvatua " Borough, £lB9 7s ■ 4d; I'utaruru Town District, 1.108 9s lid; Leamington Town District, £l2O 0s 3d; Otorohanga Town District, £99 9s lOd; Tatipo Uoad District, £4l 7s Bd. The chairman, Mr. Campbell Johnstone, remarked that the population of tho board's district was approximately 100,000 and the cost of hospital maintenance aver aged 13s pei head. Mr. W. R. Lowry (Piakoj, mentioned that the Piako County levy had increased from £3251 to £3939. The chairman replied that tliere had been t marked increase 111 the valuation of the Piako County There had been a decrease from £3,170,976 to £2,336,744 m the valuation of the Waitomo County due to tho elimination o) native lands from the areas valued for rating purposes. There had been a consequent decrease in the levy on the Waitoino County Council from £2784 to £2064.

The treasurer reported that all the local bodies had paid their levies for last year Mr. W, Hill (Rotorua), said the amount of fees earned ny tho board was £28.000 in 1924-25 and £37.000 in 1928-29. The amount collected during that period had increased from per cent, of fees due to 42 per cent last year. Tlie amounts collected by other boards last year, said Mr. Hill, were as follows Auckland, 35 per cent,. . Wellington, 24 per cent. ; Otago, 28 per cent md North Canterbury, 42 per cent Mr. Hill congratulated the treasurer, Mr. E. G. Johnson, on the success he had achieved.