HOROWHENUA COUNTY AND DISTRICT HOSPITAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1197, 17 January 1914, Page 4

HOROWHENUA COUNTY AND DISTRICT HOSPITAL.

Unless the present hospital district can be altered, Tokomatu riding will break away from Horowhenua Comity. This dictum was put to the Council on Saturday last by Councillor Venn, says the Chronicle. He said no one would be sorrier than he to part from the Council, but TokoTnaru was sick and tired of being compelled to belong to a hospital district that was useless to it. Tokomaru was determined to join Palmerston Hospital District, and if it could not join while it was part ol Horowhemu County ( Councillor Venn aimitmitted to Councillors Richards and Prouse) it would have to joiu Kaiianga County. Councillor Venn concluded by moving a motion which said nothing about severing the county ; he said he was not going to do that, for he was “against taking a bull by the horus while he was in the next paddock.” Councillor Richards insisted that in the light of what the Inspector-General had said there could be no doubt that if the resolution ol Councillor Venn ever was giveu full effect to, it would meau a severance of the northern riding from this county. The resolution was carried on the voices as follows :—“That should no reply re county severance lor hospital purposes be received within fourteen days, or such reply be unfavourable to such sevcance, the resolution passed by the Council on the nth June, IS9S, in reference to the Tokomaru Riding be affirmed, and the recommendations contained therein be extended to all ridings of the county.”