HEAVY BURDEN.
Hospital Board’s Payments for Relief. Per Press Associ-.-on. AUCKLAND, April 18. The Hospital Board last year had a deficit of £10,410, compared with £28,800 in 1932-33 and £53,000 in 1931-2. The chairman (Mr Wallace) said it was estimated that the exchange and sales tax had cost the board £4OOO or £SOOO a year. There was no sign of slackening in the board’s relief payments. The normal expenditure on relief would average about £20,000, but the boar dwas ' now spending £46,000 annually. In seven years relief payments had exceeded the normal expenditure by £250,000. In 1932 the payments amounted to £92,896, exceeding the total maintenance levy on local bodies, which was £91,223’.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20283, 18 April 1934, Page 7
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113HEAVY BURDEN. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20283, 18 April 1934, Page 7
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