DETAINED FOR HOSPITAL FEES.
An attempt to avoid payment of fees to the Auckland Hospital Board by a man who had received £I2OO as compensation for an injury, was recently nipped in the bud bv I lie detention of the debtor as lie was boarding a vessel at Wellington for England. The case was reported to the ■hoard by the fees committee ,as follows: “A man who met with 'an accident and received £I2OO compensation was found to have been bragging that he would not pay (lie hospital any portion of the £BS which was incurred in treating him. Steps were taken to compel him to pay, particularly as lie had taken out-a passage for England and was taking his money with him. “When he found that we wore determined to make him pay, he quietly slipped away, and was eventually anrested as he was slopping aboard the boat in Wellington. Finding that he was cornered and had no means of escape, lie paid over in cash the amount nine to the board, plus expenses incurred.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4532, 18 November 1930, Page 4
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176DETAINED FOR HOSPITAL FEES. Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4532, 18 November 1930, Page 4
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