MAORIS AND HOSPITAL
A NORTH ISLAND DIFFICULTY
; -at. . (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)
HAMILTON, August 26,
The problem of unpaid native rates and the consequent heavy’ burden on Hospital Boards in the Maori districts were discussed at a conference of delegates of fourteen Hospital. Boards at Hamilton to-day. The following resolution was passed: “That, Seeing that the welfare of the Maoris is a Dominion affair, the Government be urged to pay to those Hospital Boards which give treatment to Maoris from whom only small payments are obtained the difference between the percentage of fees collected from the Maoris arid the percentage collected from Europeans in each district.” * A, representative deputation wqs appointed to co-operate with the Executive of the .Hospital Bonrls’g,Association,' waiting on the Premier and Minister of Health.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1929, Page 3
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