HOSPITAL BOARD'S LEVY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 221, 6 June 1918, Page 6

HOSPITAL BOARD'S LEVY

ONSLOW BOROUGH'S PEOTEST.

In respect to the increased levies made by the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board on the local bodies, tlio Onslow Borough Council decided last evening to send the following memorial to the Hon. the Minister of Public Health, appealing against the levy:— 111 accordance with the Hospital and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909, in appealing to the Honourable the Minister against the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board's levy upon the Onslow Borough Council of ,£591 '2s. 4d. for the year 1918-19, the council hereby sends to the Honourable the Minister the fallowing reasons for dissent:— (1) Since the year 1909-10 tho levies of the board u/pon the Onslow Borough have steadily increased as follows:—

(12) Accounts owing by patients (exclusive of those properly of a charitable character) are largely uncollected though collectable. Outstanding accounts of patients for maintenance for the year ended March 31, 1914, was JCDO62 4s. 7d.. of which sum by July of that year ,£,Wfi "18s. 2d. was written off. (3) Owing to Wellington being the metropolis its'well as n dominant seaport, with consequently a lnreo floating nnmtlatton, charges that should be Dominion charges are locally. This of the matter is further enforced l>v the Hiav.ie for defective and indict rVM-e-i.

U) Tl,- unnolKll , n-Hl in.MfR-i'"'* (?"-- n ,..., VP .;i subsidy to the Wnl'.wtn'Kctin\. i (5) Th«sT«tpni of election to IVi^ov , >i"der wh : ch off o ctive tmif' , lioi-"-""" n ""

'lic'ntos and t e rd<! to be ' ,-cl 1,-iHi l)"(?n'.isp t Wvd ha= the <=ni>n''i"" of Hi» money which it is la''d uno" H ,n local liodies to cnMocf lvcnufi" tn|p r ret in the bonrrt election js to a nvtent svnnincd by the coincident local bodies' elections.

The council therefore prays that the ir oi'ournl>le the Wnistor will see It to direct, that an iiumiry be made, find will exercise his nowers to reduce the currpnt levy substantially. nrd otiuv'.vise p'ace hospital nnil elmvilnble-aid control on a m• re satisfactory bnsis.

Per Year. £ Increase, cent. I'W.10 181 - - 1910-U 218 ) U7 80 110/ , 1011.12 231 / 23 ■ 10 101M3 268 37 15 1M.VU 309 lflt 40 tm-t-15 .: 367 • - — 101-1-16 411 « 121 101(1-17 476 05 1G 1017-18 4-28 — - 1018-19 591 1G3 40