NEW HOSPITAL CONTROL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 41, 18 February 1932, Page 7

NEW HOSPITAL CONTROL

OPPOSITION TO MOVE [ Per Press Association. ] WAIPUKURAU, Feb. 17. In opposition to the move by the Wellington Hospital Board to reduce tho hospital districts to eighteen base hospitals likewise, the chairman of the Waipawa Board, serving Central Hawke’s Bay, has circularised tho contributory authorities, the Wairoa and Dannevirke Boards, and also ’the Chambers of Commerce and members of Parliament concerned with a view to an organised protest against centralisation. It is contended that country boards can maintain their institutions as cheaply as metropolitan, as the Waipukurau and Dannevirke figures show- It would also be a disservice to local patients. GOVERNMENT ADVANCES ALLOCATION ANNOUNCED [ Per Press Association. 1 AUCKLAND, Feb. 16. The announcement that tho remain* ing £38,000 of the advance of £75,000 recently made available for hospital boards by the Government would be distributed shortly, was made by Hon. J. A. Young, Minister of Health, at a meeting of the Auckland Hospital Board. The Minister advised the board that, tho allocation would be: Auckland Hospital Board £1.2,000, Wellington £7,500, North Canterbury £5OOO, Palmerston North £3900, Nelson and Waikato £2OOO each, Wallace and Fiord £l5OO, Buller £l4OO, Cook £l2OO, Waihi, Patea, Opotiki and Westland £5OO each, Tauranga £3OO, Bay of Plenty £lOO.