HOSPITAL LEVY ON COUNTRY.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18406, 12 June 1925, Page 6

HOSPITAL LEVY ON COUNTRY.

QUESTION ; JOF^StIBSIDX-

(rBESS v ASSOCIATION •■ TEUSOEiII.)

WELLINGTON, June 11,

Mr. Justice ItfacGrogov ,gavc_ •a; deci-:; sion in tho, Supremo'. Court;, wliieli.; lias widespread, interest. !y. The; ease,was one in which the Woodvijle. oil- claimed that ari/Act'liad interpreted : by the when ho refused ;53'in';'':tho;pound sub-, sidy on ■. .£lso6 ; .levy •.% tho. vWaipawa hospital on tho Woodyille:,Co.unty.;;. ! : The : Solicitor-General, ■•"•Mr-A. said tho poiht.,at issue was whether gen : .' er'al' rates .were deemed, to. : have' been collected for the purpose of paying, the. hospitals levy'when there; were other, funds.such'us; rents, profits < from trad;., irig concerns,.etc.,, out,of : which it.might have been paid. ~ A! question,, of. general: iriiiportaneb 'also was: involv.cd; inasmuch as'., the Crown contcndedx.tba't ...by,'. Sec-, tion 9,. (3).0f tho,.Appropriation. Act, 1916, ' the G.overrior-Gencral-in-Couneii was made the sole judge of any Question as to the amount of the. subsidy, and that the Supremo Court had" no jurisdiction to hear the'potitiqn. ;' •-■-■■ • His Honp'tir; ;heard cbiiiisel. for : . suppliants, arid dismissed 1 the 1 petition ori"the ground that'the C6urt^iad : ho" juris--diction.' ' ■ ■■'■,■;■. •■ ' • : .-\v ; ;. : .' •■'■"'-'

decision affects 129."County: Councils and 35 Ro.td-}B : oa.rd3. r ".' ■'."■■■•"■.