HOSPITAL BENEFIT
SOCIAL SECURITY PAYMENT. COUNTY COUNCIL DISCUSSION. “Is it a political stunt?” asked the chairman of the Masterton County Council, Mr R. E. Gordon Lee, yesterday afternoon, when the Wairarapa Hospital Board submitted figures which showed that the Government’s increase of 3s per day as an additional Social Security hospital benefit -would be of little relief to ratepayers. “The Government gets the greatest share of the increase. It is not giving the people anything,” said the County Clerk, Mr J. C. D. Mackley. “It isi shifting money from one pocket to another.” Mr H. H. Mawley, who is also chairman of the Wairarapa Hospital Board, said the position was no different from usual. The system of subsidy and levies had been the same for years. The figures taken over New Zealand would show that ratepayers received only half of the extra 3s. The Wairarapa did not get so much as that on account of its high rating. Mr Lee said the matter would be thrashed out at the Counties’ conference to be held shortly.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1943, Page 3
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175HOSPITAL BENEFIT Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1943, Page 3
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