REPRESENTATION SOUGHT
CONTRIBUTORY BODIES HOSPITAL BOARDS (Tor Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. When the Municipal Association conference resumed to-day, a Wellington remit was discussed requesting authority for boroughs and town boards to 'be directly represented jn hospital boards. Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, Mayor of Wellington, urged that all bodies collecting hospital revenue should be represented. Other speakers stated that the major issue was not representation on' boards but the wrong incidence of taxation. It was stated that in one district a farmer paid £5 yearly in hospital rates, while city dwellers paid £1 2s Gel. Finally, the remit was altered to include any contributory body and in this form it was carried. The chairman, Mr. T. Jordan, stated that the association executive ind the Counties’ Association were meeting the Minister on March 1C to discuss the position. The whole system of hospital taxation was vrong; it should be levied on the same* principle as the social senility tax.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19883, 9 March 1939, Page 6
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