HOSPITAL LEVIES
50/50 ALLOCATION NOT FAVOURED BY GOVERNMENT The suggestion by the Tauranga County Council that hospital board levies should be apportioned on the basis of 50 per cent, on capital valuation and 50 per cent, on population has met with a similar response from the Government as that accorded the proposal on previous occasions. In a letter received at last meeting of the county council the Minister of Health, Hon. J. A. Young, stated the proposal did not meet with the approval of the Government. He gave as his opinion that population was not an equitable basis upon which to levy contributions within each hospital district, and. furthermore, the taxable commodity was the rateable capital value. The Minister pointed out that the contribution levied upon local authorities was not the full contribution from taxation toward hospital board expenditure, but that subsidies were paid from the Consolidated Fund each year equal to the total amount of levies on local authorities.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 63, 8 March 1933, Page 2
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