HOSPITAL BOARD LEVY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2196, 30 October 1920, Page 3

HOSPITAL BOARD LEVY.

The i.Vili<>wbig I* idler has heea L';>;■ i-.;; rded to <'minty Coiumds ami Boroughs in 1 1 !ii" 'Palmerston 11 m- pit ;il Di-i ri<■ I by IKe Chairman C.r the District 1 In.- pit.l! Board ; ‘‘ i'iie Hospiia! !:!<>;;i‘<l tv-.;■' - exceedingly to have In cell upon the c.iiiil'ilnil'fiTy liiiiii, • tor a In; (her leV\‘ for capital CXpclld.U arc i.u the addil intis lu ilte 1 io.-.pilal. The war so interfered with the wm'!: 11 1 :• I d lies taken much longit than wm- expected !n complete tlio additions ;:n;l eipiip the huihlmgs. thi nag ihiii lime prices of everylhmg has 11 .(‘ii higher mill higher, until we wi'i'e I’o'rccd In the conclusion that jiuauees in -Tiyelii would mu meet liie exp;udituie. We hml been given (o lenders!uni! 1 li:iI we should Imve no iliflieully oh increasing Ihe lomi mid in tended doing so d necessary. Later, however, llte Public Trustee miiiouneed llm) a legal opinion having been given thiil the I rim! could not lend money to Hospital Hoards, ns they hml no power to levy n role, (lie Trust could not increase (he loan. Mr McDonald, the Assistant Public Trustee (who controls the seel ion for lending money) slated that there should bo no diilk-ully for the contributory bodies to borrow under the cerUiieate of Iho Board to mod THo levy as provided -by Clause -If, Subsctdion Id, of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909. If, therefore, any contributory body wishes to provide for the levy out of borrowed money it can do so. The Act does not give llie'Board the authority to work on a Bank overdraft, hence we must rely upon the only* source Id revenue it has to provide for the necessary expenditure durum; the vear, viz., levies from contributory bodies and the subsidy thereon.’’