GRANT F6R RELIEF

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 984, 29 May 1930, Page 18

GRANT F6R RELIEF

GOVERNMENT’S PROMISE HOSPITAL BOARD’S FUNDS Favourable consideration to an application for a Government grant to hospital boards spending an abnormal amount on relief was promised by the Prime Minister, the Hon. G. W. Forbes, to Mr. W. Wallace, chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board, and Mr. C. M. Luke, chairman of the Wellington Hospital Board, who waited on him recently. Their suggestion that unemployment relief should be a charge on the liational exchequer and not on the local taxpayers was ruled out, but relief promised in other ways. When Mr. Wallace returned to Auckland from Wellington yesterday ho stated that an application had been made to the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle, for a permit for a two-days’ race meeting of the Auckland Trotting Club, the proceeds to be devoted to relief. A reply is expected in the course of a day or two. The Auckland board’s expenditure on relief lias increased during the past four years from £20,000 to £48,000. HOSPITAL BOARD APPEAL TELEGRAM TO PRIME MINISTER The following telegram has been dispatched to the Prime Minister by Mr. W. Wallace, chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board: —“Relief committee meeting today dealing with record number of cases, 200 being unemployed, which is largest yet before board. Local bodies protesting against taxation for unemployed being placed on their shoulders. Can you make similar grant to that given by Mr. Coates? Board will furnish you with full list of cases if grant made.”