OVER-SPENDING ESTIMATES
HOSPITAL BOARD’S DILEMMA. RAPID GROWTH OF RELIEF WORK. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Over-expending its estimates now at the‘rate of £l6OO a month, the Social Welfare Committee of the Wellington Hospital Board will conclude its financial year with a debit balance of over £6OOO if it is not relieved, from the responsibility of assisting unemployed. The announcement that if relief was not granted the general taxpayer would be called upon next year to meet the' extra burden of costs was made by the chairman, Mr. F. Castle, at a meeting of the board to-day. In presenting the report of the committee Mr. G. Petherick (chairman) said that the accounts for payment amounted to £4165, almost double those of any previous month and £l6OO more than the estimates. . “The position is appalling,” he said. . It was decided to set up a sub-com-mittee to endeavour to arrange for dealing with the enormous amount of work, which is now occupying the committee for many hours a week.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 January 1931, Page 7
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