HOSPITAL FINANCE

Taranaki Daily News, 5 June 1935, Page 7

HOSPITAL FINANCE

BUILDING PROGRAMME REVIEWED. CONTRIBUTING BODIES’ POSITION. Hospital matters were briefly touched on at the meeting of the Inglewood County Council yesterday when notification was received from the Taranaki Hospital Board that it was proposed to consider at its meeting to-morrow a motion to apply to the Local Government Loans Board for sanction to borrow £19,000 for building and equipping an addition to the nurses’ home, building and equipping, a tuberculosis annexe, equipment of the lower, Tabor ward, building additions to the isolation ward, building additions to the' main hospital, repayment of balance 'of existing Joan and payments of architect’s fees and incidental. ..... > -u A covering letter stated that the building programme was progressive an would be spread over a considerable time. It was proposed that the amount of each item in the schedule would be uplifted when required. It was expected the payments of interest and sinking, fund in connection with the proposed loan would not necessitate any addition to the levy now being paid by the council* • The chairman, Cr. A. Corkill, who is also a member of the board, explained that tiie board could not help itself m the matter. It was being pressed by the department. A dozen .or mor? nurses had been living in various buildings, and the department said that could not go on any longer. At present it was not expected any increase in the levy would be necessitated. • - t • Cr. Jones: How are they going to find the interest on the £19,000?