TENTATIVE ESTIMATE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 54, 22 March 1946, Page 5

TENTATIVE ESTIMATE

HOSPITAL EXPENDITURE £4200 ANTICIPATED FOR YEAR In response to a requisition from the Health Department, soliciting a list o£ anticipated expenditure during the coming year the Whakatane Hospital Board at its meeting last week approved a list of-necessary additions and improvements to the local institution amounting to £4200 which includes the £2500 in the recently approved loan for the new boiler.

The chairman, Mr J> Mullins, in discussing the estimate said that it must be clearly understood that the £I7OO for anticipated works .. was purely tentative and each item would be considered on its merits when it came before the Board.

“These items are open to subsidy” queried Mr Burt. The Chairman: Yes, that is so. The list is forwarded at the request of the Department and we are not necessarily bound by them.

To Correspondents (C. J. Hallett, ‘Communist,’ ‘The Old Order’ and ‘Why Debate It.’ All the above letters have been written in connection with the forthcoming debate on Wednesday next. In view of both subjects being more or less ‘sub judice’ until such time as the debate has taken place we have held these expressions of view over, lest they should influence the tone or course of the remarks of either speaker. It is the common desire of both parties to refrain from personalities and side issues and letters such as we have received from time to time are not calculated to assist towards this end. Ed.)