HOSPITALS AND CHARITABLE AID.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10659, 14 June 1912, Page 4

HOSPITALS AND CHARITABLE AID.

Some of .the lochl bodies in. the Waiitaraipa. are quite .an unnecessiary alanm «ver tflie increased demand which has ibeen made .upoii' theira this ydar for fthe mainitenan.ee of tlie 'hospital and .charitatbfte aid isystem. It should he remembered tliat every pfart olf the district lis •rapnetsented on the Hospital iand Charitable Aid Board, imd that.the estimates have beeln prepared after la thorough anyestigation of the i r equiu»ementis of each part of 'the di'st-rict. There will be an- labn'orTO';rl expenditure this year, in convection with th* erection ef a mmrse's Ihome, and Board offices, and in the furnishing of the Buchanan Home.

llhese worfcs, however, are being un<dcrtakeiii with <tlie approval of the Government ;nii':l -the Board, and are not 'like4y to .bo reeurrMig. 'Sonic cf them, indeed, have lice.n l.i.lmost forced upon.' the district by the U'cpM'tmnii. The demand upon, the taxpayers muiy geem heavy, hut k'iu-» we havo recognised our responsibilities in the jrJ.ititc-.i-' -of coring for t]io. sick and ponuriou's, we. should "not complain .at .the action of those in whose hands wo have entrusted the ad.mii>:';si;f.itioii cf the system. -