OTAKI HOSPITAL.
PROTEST AGAINST CLOSING. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, March 27. A deputation waited on the Hon. J. A. Young, Minister of Health, at Otaki, to protest against the proposal to close the Hospital there. Mr W. H. M.P., said the hospital could be made to pay its way if run properly, and the patients not taken away from it to Palmerston North. It had as much right to existence as the institutions at Masterton and Carterton. If it was closed, the land should be given back to the Maoris who gave it. What they wanted was to collect tlieir own rates, and. manage the place as a Hospital Board. Others spoke in support, and Sir J. G. Wilson and others against. -The Minister said he was against economy at the expense of efficiency, but they already bad 48 hospital districts, and they must not have too many separate districts. He hoped, an amicable arrangement would be come to.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 29 March 1926, Page 11
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159OTAKI HOSPITAL. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 29 March 1926, Page 11
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