WAIKATO HOSPITAL BOARD.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 668, 13 May 1914, Page 5

WAIKATO HOSPITAL BOARD.

THE YEAR'S ESTIMATES

A LARGE INCREASE,

The estimates discussed at the Waikato Hospital and Charitable Aid Board's meeting dealt in some pretty tall figures. Last year the total expenditure was £15,313 3s Bd, but this year provision was made for an expenditure of, roughly, £25,000. The increase i= iargely due to the extensive scheme of electric light, heating water, which has been fully discussed by the board and approved of by the Health Department. This accounts for £7500, and provision was also made for a nursing home at Kawhia costing £750 and a resident doctor's house costing £450. After taking off all receipts, the secretary intimated that there was a sum of £18,803 to be met. Half of this would be borne by the Government, and the other half, £9451 10s, will be allocated to the local bodies, as against £5700 last year. The new valuation of local bod ies, as published below, shows an increase of nearly £4.000,000, and in the C"Be of the Waipa County, whose valuation has gone up considerably, the amount allocated to that council to be found for hospital and charitable purposes will be increased by easily 80 per cent. Several other bodies will be paying in like proportion, and members of the board wondered where all this taxation was going to end, and thought the time was ripe for some adjustment in the taxation. The following are the new valuations of the various local bodies:

Waipa 2,860,511 Waikato 2,553,245 Waitomo 2,034.524 Raglan 1,713,381 Piako 1,248,239 | Matamata 1,157,205 { Hamilton 898,779 Ohura 887,900 Kaitieke 612.240 Awakino 600,962' Kawhia 516,553 Rotorua Town 489,967 Rotorua County 489,251 . Frai.ktnn 339,964 Te Kuiti 324,329 East Taupo 297,208 West Taupo 270,38S Te Awamutu 263,628 Cambirdge 193,355 Huntly 157,850 Morrinaville 183,835 Taumarunui 125,397 • Ngaruawahia 100,348 Te Aroha 73,463 Manunui 45,138 Total £18,410,655