HOSPITAL FINANCE
(To the Editor.) Sir, —The Hospital Board, or a see* tion of it, proposes at this time to buy a milk farm tor £8000 or £9000. Can you enlighten your readers as to what control can be exercised over the board to prevent extravagance? Haa the board power to incur an expenditure of £8000 or .£BO,OOO for a, milk farm, a sheep farm, or any purpose whatever? The City Council takes a vote of ~the ratepayers before large sums of money are borrowed. It appears as if the Hospital Board, knows no bounds.—l am, etc., RATEPAYER. Wellington, March 18, 1915. [The matter of purchasing a farm is stated to b'e still under consideration by a committee of tho Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. It is pointed l out that under Section 61 of the Act, before expending a sum of more than. £250 on new undertakings, the board must obtain tho conseut of the Minister. Under Section ii, when a contributing local authority considers the estimated expenditure of a hospital board excessive it may appeal to the Minister, who may ; if he considers fit, direct that an inquiry be made. —Editor Dominion.]
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2414, 20 March 1915, Page 8
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194HOSPITAL FINANCE Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2414, 20 March 1915, Page 8
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