HOSPITAL SUBSIDIES
NEED MAY BE LESSENED BUT WILL BE CONTINUED Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. While announcing that the Government had decided not to depart from the existing statutory methods of subsidising hospital boards’ expend! iur<, the Prime Minister, the Hon. G. \V. Forbes, in a letter received by the Wellington Hospital Board yesterday', intimated that legislation would be brought down this session to deal with the unemployment problem, and it was confidently' hoped that as a rasult the incidence of outdoor relief would be substantially reduced The Prime Minister’s letter was in reply' to a deputation from the Auckland and Wellington Hospital Boards which waited upon him recently regarding the contention that unemployment relief should not be a tax on local ratepayers, but on the Consolidated Fund. The Prime Minister pointed out that that fund was already bearing half the cost of such relief in the case of hospital boards, and. in addition, a proportion of the expenditure incurred by' local bodies. It was considered equitable that local ratepayers should bear a share of the responsibility' for local distress
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1009, 27 June 1930, Page 1
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