HOSPITAL LEVY
MANAWIATU COUNTY COUNCIL CONCERNED.
Graye concern was expressed at Tuesday’s meeting of the Manawatu County Council on receipt of a letter from the Palmerston North Hospital Board forwarding particulars of its estimates for the current year. The statement showed an estimated increase of £4973 over the whole of the district in respect to this year’s maintenance levy and capital expenditure. The amount which the Council was called on to pay was £2895, as against £2349 last year, an increase of £554. ■ “It is getting pretty serious/’ Shid the chairman, Cr. W. E. Barber. The clerk pointed out that the total revenue of the Council was £15,600, of which nearly £3OOO would go out to meet the hospital levy. The Council felt that in some way an emphatic protest should go forward against the enormously increased levy. “We simply can’t- do anything more than ‘receive’ the letter,” said tiie chairman, hopelessly.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3790, 10 May 1928, Page 2
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152HOSPITAL LEVY Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3790, 10 May 1928, Page 2
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