AN EPIDEMIC LEGACY.

Otaki Mail, Volume 27, 3 November 1919, Page 4

AN EPIDEMIC LEGACY.

ANOTHER STATE MUDDLE.

Considerable difficulty is (says the “Auckland Star”) being experienced by the Waikato Hospital Board in securing from the Government the necessary pensions for widows of men who died as a result of the epidemic,

and the Board is at present £ISOO out of pocket by sums paid out to widows. Repeated application lias been made by the Board for tho money, but the

only satisfaction to be had from the Department is a long list of additional \ regulations and requirements, creating j difficulties and delaying payments. The ■ latest application of the Board lias j brought a further sheaf of these regulations, and at a meeting of the Board the secretary said tho thing was the greatest mix-up with which lie ever hud to deal with in connection with the Government. It had been an absolute bungle from start to finish, and now, with the Government’s present requirements, the matter was just as far from settlement ns it\ ever was. The Chairman said they had made a fatal mistake in not demanding that a sum of

money should be paid in by the Department beforiv moving- Wanganui had done so. Tilt -whole thing was a

complete muddle. .il£jh«Ughi the Board would have to charge th? De-

partment interest on the money jutfl

out. Tlie Board decided not to make any reductions in the meantime, but to ask Mr Hill, of Rotorua, while in Wellington, to sec the Minister.