MANGONUI HOSPITAL RATE
Sequel To Default Of County Council (P.A.) WHANGAREI, October 4. A decision to invoke Section 59 of the Hospital and Charitable Institutions Act, 1926, in order that the Valuer-General may undertake the collection of hospital rates in Mangonui County, has been taken by the Minister of Health (Mr Nordmeyer), according to advice received by tire Mangonui Hospital Board from the Director-General of Health (Dr M. H. Watt). I’his is the outcome of the refusal of the Mangonui County Council to strike a rate for hospital purposes for the year 1945-46, following on similiar action the previous year at tire request of a section of the ratepayers whose derating campaign was headed by district branches of the Farmers’ Union.
The levies payable by the county council to the hospital board for the current financial year amount to £8337.
The implication in the Minister’s action is that tire hospital rate will be struck Lv the Valuer-General upon the ratepayers. In the event of refusal to pay, the Valuer-General would have power to employ legal process against a defaulter, culminating in a distress warrant upon farm property, stock and chattels.
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Southland Times, Issue 25795, 5 October 1945, Page 6
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190MANGONUI HOSPITAL RATE Southland Times, Issue 25795, 5 October 1945, Page 6
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