DOMINION HOSPITAL BOARDS.

Shannon News, 18 March 1927, Page 1

DOMINION HOSPITAL BOARDS.

ANNUAL CONPERENCE. DELEGATE'S REPORT. The Palmerston North delegates to the 'conference at Christchurch, of the Hospital’ Board's Association reported, inter alia, as follows to the meeting 6f the Palmerston North Hospital Board on Thursday:—. “The remits carried included a request to the Government to amend-the-fourth, schedule of the Act to ensiire that no board receives less" than T4s subsidy for each £1 of levy for maintenance purposes. In this connection a remit was passed calling on the Government to refund to this board the sum of £BO4 deducted from the subsidy ';during thb?year- 1925 : 26. In‘ other words, we : are able to secure the support of other boards for relief in this •matter, and, - -though we haye* little ' chance of'securing thewhole of thisrefund from, the Government, the association is now committed to-help us to secure at leastifhat' piortioinof the refund’ the Government holds—namely £401,’. ... Other : remits passed dealt with the following matters : —(1) J The necessity/ for a pension for sufferers from tuberculosis; (2) the necessity for further tightening up of the law regarding the default of husbands; (3) the- necessity for having county and borough elections in the same year, the election of the chairman of hospital boar ds to be held - at 'the June meeting; (4) the necessity for national provision for the treatment of Maoris in hospital; (5) the necessity for providing a post-graduate course for nurses at one of the universities. 1 - “In presenting, this report*/the dele-;’ gates desire' to place on, record their, appreciation? of the hospitality extended/ to them by the North Canterbury Hospital Board." The delegates were accorded a hearty vote of thanks for their support. SPECIAL BATE POE EXTENSION- ■ SCHEME. . ' ; . Documents for confirmation in connection with the Waikawa South Rba'd' extension special rating district loan of £I4OO were received by the Horowhenua County Council from the Public Trust Office on Saturday. . ; A. resolution was- passed'- striking n rate of 2 l-16d in the £ on the capital value in the special rating district of 100 acres for the raising of the loan, for a period of 36iyeafcs, with sinking fund at the rate of £l4 per annum. The chairman (Cr. Monk) remarked that land,' once; it'Was roaded was considerably improved in ' Value.' "|I