MUST BUILD HOSPITAL
MINISTER EMPHATIC ON PAEROA PROPOSAL ANSWER TO DEPUTATION (From Our Own Correspondent) HAMILTON, To-day. Emphatic instructions to proceed with the erection of a maternity hospital at Paeroa were given by the Minister of Health, the Hon. J. A. Young, to a deputation from the Thames hospital district yesterday. Replying, Mr. Young said the board held in trust the property and money required for a brick building, and there was a declaratory judgment of the Supreme Court in 1923 ordering its erection. “Public maternity hospitals are not expected to pay,” said Mr. Young. “To long for money profit from them would be against the principles of our hospital system. We aim to give service, not to make money, and I am surprised that a hospital-board should advance that issue as an argument. If a hospital board was stifling maternity work it was not carrying out its social duty to the community in a proper fashion.” Mr. Young expressed sympathy with the difficulties of the board, but requested that the work should proceed, and appealed for a friendly spirit of co-operation.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 368, 31 May 1928, Page 13
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