WAIRARAPA DISTRICT HOSPITAL BOARD.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9049, 26 March 1908, Page 7

WAIRARAPA DISTRICT HOSPITAL BOARD.

% % ANNUAL MEETING.

The annual meeting of the Wairarapa District Hospital Board was held yesterday morning, presentMessrs E. G- Eton, (chairman), M. J. Jackson, Matthews, .M. Fisher, W. gPerry, F. W. H. .Kummer, T. Moss, Cornelius, W. J. Welch M. Maxton, D. Crewe and R. F. Beetham. The treasurer's report, which was adopted, was as follows:—Receipts on account of ordinary maintenance, since April last, £3,541) Is lid, made up by the following amounts, ..£1,887 Is 9d, local body contributions; £2Bl 5s 3d and ,£1,372 5s 1 Id, subsidies for 1906-7, and 1907-8, respectively. Expenditure: Masterton # Hospital, £1,702 10s;, South Wairarapa, £733; Pahiatua, £718,; total, £3,153 10s; salaries, £20,; remuneration to Masterton Hospital secretary, £2O; travelling expenses, £2O 2s 3d; other incidentals; £5 10s 9d, credit balance, £129 16s 4d. The statement of assets and liabilities on this account are:—Assets, £129 16s 4d, credit balance, and £514 15s lOd, subsidy remitted to Grey town in error; liabilities: Masterton Hospital, £567 10s; printing, 7s 6d; total, £557 17a 6d. Infectious' diseases hospitals:—Receipts (including bank balance of £1,612 10s 8d), £3,638 6s sd; expenditure, £2,9.97 5s 6d. Assets are £B6l 4s 2d, and the liabilities total £53 19s. It was decided to allow the Pahiatua Hospital Trustees an overdraft .at tbsbank up to £2OO. Some discussiojpensued on the advisability of altowing this body to continue with an overdraft. The secretary stated I that the Trustees would be seriously inconvenienced if it were refused the request for an overdraft, as the bank refused to allow them to operate on their account, and it would be some ■ little time before the contributions would be received by the Trustees. Several members of the Board, on hearing this explanation, withdrew their opposition, and the motion to grant the overdraft was carried on the voices.

ESTIMATES FOR YEAR ENDING MARCH 31st, 1909. The estimates were then dealt with. The Masterton Trustees set down as the amount estimated to he ■Required by them on account of ordimaintenance, but the Board reduced its grant on this estimate by £BB9, although the sum of £216 was added to the infsctious diseases account above the Trustees' estimate, fuel and lighting was reduced from £350 (estimate) to £275; salaries from £I,OOO to £736; medicine, £3OO to £200; furniture, £2OO to £100; instruments, £IOO to £SO; incidentals, £IOO to £SO; furnishing operating theatre, £l5O to £100; road formation and grounds, £350 to £2OO. The infectious diseases estimate was £134, but the amount was increased to £340; nursing-, £150; medicine. £4l; fuel and lighting, £25; being the items increased. The respective amounts to be raised by rate on the two accounts then stood at £2,041 for ordinary maintenance, and £340 for infectious diseases. The rSouth'Wairarapa Trustees had their estimates approved on ordinary maintenance account (total £1,789) with the exception of incidentals (£SO to £3O) and the new building estimate, £1,050, which was reduced to £550, the balance of the amount to be raised next year. Infectious diseases estimates were not amended, and the total amounts adopted were £1,269 for ordinary maintenance, and £l7O for infectious diseases. Pahiatua required £1,179 to meet the estimated jiecifiency, and 'the Board only reduced this by £lO, on the "incidental" estimate. Infectious diseases requirements left an estimated deficiency of £232, which amount was duly passed.