HOSPITAL FINANCE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 104, 19 May 1937, Page 7

HOSPITAL FINANCE

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Prompt Payment of Levies to Waipawa Board

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WAIPUKURAU, This Day. , "It is. pleasing to note that the year ha's commenced with very satisfactory fees returns, and to record that all local bodies have met the board by paying their flrst quarter's levies on the .basis of last year's figures, subject to adjustment when the estimates are reviewed," said tho managing secretary of tho Waipawa Hospital Board, Mr P. R. Smyrk, in his monthly report this morning. Had it not been for this the board 's general account would now have been substantially in debit, particularly as at the beginning of May the board had to meet the flrst half year's loan debenture. "We have not yet received an adyanee on account of estimated subsidy," Mr Smyrk added, "but in telephpnic conversation with the Department I was advised that an advance of £1400 has been approved and a Tec.ommendation to this effect has gone forward to the Treasury." Ha had .been advised that the Departmept was endeavouring to expedite Treasury payments of the grant of £1750 for reconditioning work at the Pukeora Sanatorium, and he fully anticipated that both those amounts would reaeh the board 'a office shortly. However, until they came to hand finanees would not permit the board proceeding with additional staff accommodation at the hospital, and at Pukeora Sanatorium, for which work plans and specifications had been in the office awaiting the calling of tenders for considerably xover six months. "The sum of £250, representing the last annual payments of the £2000 grant from the Government under the Pukeora 'take-over' conditions, has been received," Mr Smyrk concluded.