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’]’HE chairman of the Wanganui Hospital Board was quite right in enquiring why the new measure designed to avoid the stand-down week for the unemployed should be applied to the four main centres of population, and not to such, cities as Wanganui. The tax is collected equally from the smaller centres as from the larger, and that fact alone makes it desirable that the benefits of the fund should be equitably distributed throughout the Dominion. There may be a valid reason for this seeming preferential treatment of the main cities, and if there is one the Minister would be well advised to make it known. In the absence of such publication of the reason for the preferential treatment of the main cities, the hospital boards are quite entitled to regard themselves as the willing horses who are being allowed by the Government to do the pulling so long as they are foolish enough to do so.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 117, 20 May 1932, Page 6
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