A PALTRY GIS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 120, 22 January 1915, Page 3

A PALTRY GIS.

j PROPOSED DONATION VKTOED A UAETIin: CAS IC. An echo of fho typhoid re v.or ou break at liaetihi was heard at. ;r meeting of the Wanganui Hospits Beard yesterday, v,iieu a letter wr received from the President of ti’ 'Maori Council, stating that the d , partment refused to allow the lacto making a donation of £lO (an ainom previously agreed upon) towards ti cost cl' the outbreak. The cornmunic. lien added that the matter had bee submitted' to the Minister who ha replied: "As the ’Maoris are now pa; ing rates, and : ■ trio Government subsidising the 1 . . ical boards I c:. net agree to the Council's- espendin their” money in . i hat way.” Mr Signcli said iliat the action c the Minister 'was most’ contemptibh and all over a paltry . £lO. T-le move that the -TJepartmehV-'sliotild Be ’writ en to pointing cut .that t the-.Boar should be reimbursed, as the outbrea had cost over £fort..

The Chairre;v;:: Ail that has been done. Mr Bignell: Well, emphasise it. This is . a most contemptible •thing; ■: The Chairman - stud that there had been a verbal arrangement for the Department To. pay the-.-cost of nursing and medical'expenses. Mr Battle .said that be, and the

chairman had waited upon the Maori Council a?; a deputation, and after an arrangement, had been made the Minister had turned them down. .At this stage one of the members asked which Department was concerned, but as the communication hod been sent to the Maori Council and not to the Board, the point was in doubt. Mr Battle suggested that the Premier should be communicated with. A member; If the natives paid rates we would not worry about ihe £lO. Mr Battle: ; Wo should show onr utter contempt of this action. Rub it in j 0,3 much as we can. I It. was decided to hold the matter | over, and to discuss it. at the next t meeting.