HOSPITAL TAXATION
Comment By Minister
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) THAMES. May 16.
At. a meeting with the Thames Hospital Board and the contributing local bodies yesterday, the Minister of Health, Mr. Nordmeyer, heard objections from* local bodies involving inability to nay an increased rnte for Hie Thames Hospital rebuilding proposals. and objections to the site and to the incidence of hospital taxation. Mr. Nordmeyer said (hat hospital rating was a complicated matter, and as Minister of Health he deplored the attitude suggested in some districts of direct action to meet the position. Such action on the part of any responsible person was mischievous, misleading and dishonest. If hospital rating was to be abolished it was for Parliament to decide, not a pressure group in any local authority. At the same time he felt Hint the present system of hospital rating had many things against it. It contained irregularities throughout the Dominion and was in need of overhaul. No doubt the Select Parliamentary Committee set up to investigate loeal government would have this matter well to the fore, said Air. Nordmeyer. If the present system of land taxation were abolished the question was what would replace it.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 196, 17 May 1944, Page 6
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195HOSPITAL TAXATION Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 196, 17 May 1944, Page 6
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