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LOCAL BODIES AND HOSPITALS

NO LEGISLATION THIS YEAR. Legislation this session dealing with the incidence of levies mad# by hospital boards on local authorities is not contemplated, said the Minister of Health (Hon. J. A. Young), in the House of Representatives yesterday, when replying to a question by Mr. T. M. Wilford (Hutt). Mr. Wilford asked the Minister whether he had any scheme whereby every contributing authority would have more direct representation on hospital boards, and whether he proposed this session to introduce legislation to relieve the local. bodies from the heavy burdens they had to bear through the payment of hospital levies.

The Minister replied that it was not intended to bring down a Bill on the subject this session. If the local authorities did the work of collecting the levies, the obvious reply would be: Make the hospital boards rating authorities but that suggestion appeared to him to be undesirable, as its adoption would make for multiplicity of the machinery for rating. If there were any complaints the local people had themselves to blame as the hospital board representatives were returned by, the same electors who elected the local authorities. He had asked the Municipal Association and the Countries Association to confer and agree upon some basis of levies, and if that agreement were reached, he would be glad to ask Cabinet’s approval for the necessary legislation.

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3838, 30 August 1928, Page 3

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LOCAL BODIES AND HOSPITALS Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3838, 30 August 1928, Page 3

LOCAL BODIES AND HOSPITALS Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3838, 30 August 1928, Page 3

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