UNPAID NATIVE RATES
OPOTIKI HOSPITAL AREA The unfair burden that is being placed on European ratepayers in many districts throughout the Dominion where there is a large proportion of Maoris was shown by the chairman. Mr. S. Maxwell, at a meeting of the Opotiki Hospital Board In the Opotiki county and borough ‘he proportion of Europeans and Maoris is approximately equal, yet only 10 per cent of the Maori rates levied is collected. With more native settlement schemes coming into operation the position is steadily becoming wore
Under the Social Security Act it is now necessary to build a large maternity hospital at Opotiki, chiefly tor the benefit of Maori patients, and the burden of this hospital will come mainly upon the European ratepayers, who pay nearly ail the hospital rates.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20128, 23 December 1939, Page 8
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131UNPAID NATIVE RATES Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20128, 23 December 1939, Page 8
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