WILL GO FORWARD

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32420, 19 April 1944, Page 4

WILL GO FORWARD

HOSPITAL LOAN PROPOSAL DISCUSSION BY BOARD CONFERENCE WITH MINISTER The application of the Thames Hospital Board for permission to raise a loan of £50,000' as the first instalment of an amount required for re-building purposes would now go forward, said the chairman, Mr P. E. Brenan, at a meeting of the Thames. Hospital Board on Tuesday when the loan proposal was being discussed. The Ohinemuri County Council forwarded details of the resolution passed at the recent local body conference at Paeroa about the loan proposals and also advised that the Minister of Health, Hon. A. H. Nordmeyer, would according to advice received, visit Thames in the near \ future to confer with local bodies about the loan. . “I am sure you will join with me in looking forward to the Minister’svisit,” said the chairman. “Will it be a private conference or open to the press?” asked Mr J. W. Danby. No Complaint About Board The chairman said that would probably would he for the Minister to decide but he would no doubt be only too pleased to have the press present. Mr Danby asked whether the chairman thought the hospital board should be represented. “I understand there has been no complaint about the board’s administration but that the conference is largely about the incidence of taxation,” said the chairman. “I shall give the 1 local bodies all the assistance I can if requested to do so.” Mr A. G. Davis said the conference ■was primarily called Mahout the question of costs and taxation, and he thought the hospital board should be invited, even if only to see how things went on. »

It was decided that in the event of the board being invited, it be represented by the executive committee. NEGOTIATIONS HELD UP PROPERTY FOR HOSPITAL Negotiations for the purchase of St. George’s Church property at Thames had been proceeding but had been held up pending the visit of the Minister of Health to Thames, said' the chairman, Mr P. E. Brenan at the meeting of the Thames Hospital Board on Tuesday. Mr* J. W. Danby said the difficulty about the church was one quite to be expected. The vestry was not antag- , onistic to J the proposal but its view was that the board should be prepared to shift the church to a site equally convenient and re-establish it without burdening the parishioners. This, might cost from £BOOO to £lo,ooo'.