HOSPITAL RATING
MINISTER ADVOCATES CHANGE (P.A.) NEW PLYMOUTH, May 6. “There is a question to-day whether we ought to continue the, existing system of making local ratepayers responsible for a great portion of the cost, said the Minister of Health, Mr A. H. Nordmeyer, addressing members of the Taranaki Hospital Board to-day. There was a considerable discrepancy in the rates in the various hospital districts, he said. Some hospitals were shockingly overcrowded and to ask these boards to improve their accommodation would mean imposing on them a burden greater than they should bear. “We have come to the point where we have to take a stand and see if we cannot get a more equitable system of rating,” Mr Nordmeyer said. “We should be able to evolve a system which would stabilise borough and county rates—a system where the cost of the hospitals would be national and not local. Some better system has to be devised, lessening the burden On some of the more highly-rated districts.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21957, 8 May 1941, Page 9
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