HOSPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 471, 5 June 1912, Page 5

HOSPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS.

SCHEME OP APPORTIONMENT. At the meeting of the Waikato Hospital and Charitable Aid Board last week, the following resolution, which explains itself, was adopted:--"That the board having found that the estimated expenditure required for capita] is £2OOO, and for maintenance of the institution and for charitable aid distribution in the district to be £IO,OOO, the board having made all deductiuns as required by the Hospital and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909, such deductions amounting to £4OOO, now find that the remainder to be allotted for contribution by ths Minister of Finance is £5151 10s 3d, and by the local authorities £4849 9s 9d, and the board do now declare that the several local authorities (including the Valuer-General for contributing districts in which there are no local authorities) ar.d whose namea are set forth in the following schedule, shall be liable to contribute to the expenditure as aforesaid, and that the proportion of the contribution to be made by each local authority shall be the amount set opposite the names of each local authority respectively in the said schedule, the amount to be contributed bv each being in the same ratio to the whole amount of the contributions taken together as the capital ratable value 3 of the ratable property in the district to the whole amount of all ratable property in the district and further that the board do now appoint and require that payment of the said amount shall be made on the 15th day of June, 1912, to the secretary at the office o? the board, Hood street. Hamilton." The appointment is as follows, the first mentioned figures being the. capital value, while the second figures show the amount to be levied on each district: —■

Raglan County, £1,700,030 —£811 9s 3d; Waipa County, £1,615.764 £771 4g lOd; Waikato County, £1,349,237 County, £1,236,33U £590 2s Gd ; Matamata County, £1,118,319 —£533 16s; Waitomo County. £842,319 £402 1s 2d; I-lamiiton Borough, £704,933—£336 9s 3d; Awakino County, £591,397 Rotorua Town, £455,067 3d; Kawhia County, £385,245 —£183 17s 9d; Ohura Countv, £378,848 £IBO 16s Sd; East Taunu County, £296,778 County, £269,524 £l2B 13s; Te Kuiti Borough. £215,600 —£102 18s 2d; West Taupo County, £206,557 — £9B 12s; Frankton Town, £203,013 —£96 18s; Cambridge Borough, £193,365—£92 5s lOd; Huntly Town, £147,895 —£70 lis lOd; Taumarunui Borough, £119,022 -£56 16s 2d: Rotorua County. £89,144—£42 lis; Te Aroha Borough, £73,403—£35 0a 8d ; Morrinsville Town, £60,933 —£29 Is 8d; totals, £12,252,713—£5848 9s 9d.

The total population of the hospital district is £55,624. It will be seen by the above figures that the King Country contributes £15171 3s Id, or very nearly one third of the whole amount.