HOSPITAL CONFERENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14704, 3 June 1920, Page 7

HOSPITAL CONFERENCE.

(Per Press Association.') WELLINGTON, June 2. ' The Hospital Conference adopted a recommendation that the principle of a proportion scheme for subsidies on the rate of the-levies proposed, bv the Goverment- he approved, but that the minimum rate of su.bsidv be 12s .6d in the £. "An amendment bv the W:ukato Board, that tlie minimum should he Xos in the £ was lost by 21 to 11;: The Conference also adopted remits to empower local authorities to levy a. special rate in districts upon petition for the purpose,,of subsidising or paying the salary of a district .nurse ; urging the introduction of a. s'lidrtiAct; plabiiis; hospital boards on an equal''footing with other local bodies as regards hoiroiVirie; ! powers: affirming that hospital boards should be esempt. from stamp duties on cheques ; • and advocating that all sup- : plies for the maintenance and upkeep of hospitals be procured and distribvitcd_ bv the Department. ' ' V