ALL PAY BUT NO SAY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 815, 8 November 1929, Page 8

ALL PAY BUT NO SAY

COUNCIL AND HOSPITAL EXPENDITURE M DISCUSSION AT HAMILTON From Our Own Correspondent , HAMILTON, Thursday ' Complaint that it was impotent control hospital expenditure yet forced to be a passive party’ to 2! such expenditure was'voiced at meeting of the Hamilton Boron!? Council last evening. As the council is a contribute body to the upkeep of the IVaiW Hospital the board advised that* 0 the current financial year it teas -5 posed to build additions to the i fectious diseases ward, estimated * cost £3,500. The cost would bem! by bank overdraft. Cr. C. Lafferty expressed the vie that the Government should mJ? take such a big responsibility, jection to the position of the conn-t which he described as that of a bug,, 1 ; between the board and the ratepayer! was voiced by Cr. A. J. Denz. tv, council got all the blame for heart capital expenditure, he said, but had no say in the matter. As a member of the hospital board Cr. C. J. W. Barton explained thS the new work had been practical!, forced on the board by the Health Department as it was an urgent neces! sity. Cr. J. Tidd said the council w one consolation —the money wouldk paid from overdraft and not dlreq from the ratepayers’ pockets. 1

Cr. Barton: These additions m only an advance guard of what is to come.

Stating that protest was uselett the Mayor moved that the letter to received, a course which was adopt*],