HOSPITAL LEVY
INCREASE IN AUCKLAND.
CITY COUNCIL PROTESTS.
(Per United Press Association.)
Auckland, May 22.
The Auckland Hospital Board’s levy on the Auckland City Council this year is £57,480, against £51,724 last year, in consequence the council’s hospital rate has been increased from 44d to 5Jd. The council decided to protest and to obtain a solicitor’s opinion on whether the increased levy necessitated by the cost of unemployed relief is legal. One councillor said the whole question hinged on the word “indigent.” If people out of work were indigent persons, then the Hospital Board was justified in relieving them. If not, then the board was making illegal levies.
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Southland Times, Issue 21090, 23 May 1930, Page 11
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108HOSPITAL LEVY Southland Times, Issue 21090, 23 May 1930, Page 11
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