STATE AID TO HOSPITALS
Sir, —Will you allow me to make a brief reply to your two correspondents on the above subject. I had no intention of belittling the noble work "clone by the Sisters of the Mater, but, as it is a private hospital, run by a religious body, whose employees receive no wages, it thus competes with our public hospitals, also those private ones who pay their staffs high salaries. If it is not run for profit or its own adherents, its policy must have changed. One correspondent wonders how the Mater surmounted the financial strain of the 1918 epidemic. I suppose its friends assisted it, and having no wages to pay it was and still is better able to bear a loss, if any. The fact that it admits patients of all classes and creeds is no reason why it should look to or expect financial assistance from the State, as other privately-run hospitals also admit all who apply foe admission, but receive no State aid. Protestant.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22018, 26 January 1935, Page 15
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