BURDEN UPON HOSPITALS

Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1931, Page 4

BURDEN UPON HOSPITALS

RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT,

QUESTION OF RESPONSIBILITY.

By Telegraph.—Press Association.

Wellington, Last Night. The present system of hospital boards dealing with distress arising from unemployment was a question that needed immediate discussion by all the hoards, Dr. E. B. Gunson, a member of the Auckland Hospital Board, who is visiting Wellington, told a reporter to-day. Dr. Gunson contended that the expense of the forthcoming conference of boards at Timaru would be justified, because of this question alone, but he considered that discussion on all minor matters should be postponed. In fact, tlie conference itself could well be postponed if the Government gave practical effect to the suggestion that the burden of relieving unemployment should be placed with the Unemployment Board.