LOWER ESTIMATES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19987, 12 July 1939, Page 4

LOWER ESTIMATES

REDUCTION OF £2BOO COST OF MAINTENANCE WAIROA HOSPITAL HOARD FEWER BEDS PIE OH OLD FOR (Special to tin* Herald.) WAIROA. this day. A decision to amend its estimates by a reduction of £2BOO ns the result of representations from the contributing bodies, was reached by the Wairoa Hospital Board yesterday on the recommendation of the finance committee. Reporting on the estimates, the finance committee stated that on re;<2ipt of letters from the Wairoa Countv Council and the Department >f Health concerning the estimates, a special meeting of the committee was held on June 20. Alter careful consideration ot the estimates, the committee decided to amend the item "hospital maintenance” by allowing for an average occupied bed state of 50 instead of GO and reducing the amount by a lull fixth of £14,000. Other maintenance items were left as originally budgeted for, with a rearrangement of capital ixpenditure only as to the incidence if payment over this year and next. The reduction of £2BOO thereby affected reduced the maintenance levies of the Wairoa Borough Council by £l7O 19s 3d and' the County Council by £949 0s 4d, while the Government subsidy was decreased by £IGBO.

The amended figures now read:— Wairoa Borough Council, capital £7G Gs 4d; maintenance, £llsO 17s 8d total, £1227 4s.

Wairoa County Council, capital. £423 13s 8d; maintenance, £6389 2s Id; total, £OBI2 lGs,

Government subsidy, capital, £SOO ■naintenance, £BG2G 17s 1 Gd: total 29120 17s Gd.

The effect of the reduction, oon■luded the report, was that the Wairoa County Council could strike a hospital rate of a halfpenny instead >f live-eighths of a penny in. (he pound for the current year. Commenting on the ifinan.ee committee’s decision, Mr. 11. M. B. dcLnu;our stated that he thought it was a very wise one.