AUCKLAND NEWS.
Per Press Association. Auckland, last night, The price, of sugar has bean reduced 15s per ton. The annual returns for 1904'5, submitted at a meeting of the Auckland Hospital Board, gave the average number of patients treated daily as 167.4, and tho daily coat 5s 2;(d per head. The infectious disoases patients averaged 7 4 per day, and tho cost 6s o£d por head. The inmates of the Costley Home numbered 194 por day on tho average, and their maintenance amounted to 10s 11 d per head. Tho weekly figures in connection with the Costley Homo showed a marked increase In the cost per head compared with the previous twolve months, but thiß discrepancy was explained by the chairman, who poiutnd out that close on £IOO had been expended in furniture, bedding, etc. Tho extraordinary expenditure had been in the direction of improving and makiDg the institution more comfortable for the old people.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1462, 24 May 1905, Page 1
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