APPROVED WITH RIDER
HOSPITAL BOARD APPLICATION FOR LOAN.
BOROUGH COUNCIL’S DECISION. At last night's meeting of the Masterton Borough Council the Wairarapa Hospital Board advised that, owing to a revision of the architect’s estimate of the cost of strengthening the Nurses’ Old Home, it was proposed to ask the Local Government Loans Board to sanction a loan of £15,000, instead of one of £8,400.
The council decided to approve the application, but added a rider that it expected the board to look to ratepayers’ interests where the action of its officers was concerned.
Councillor W. Kemp said that within six months the architects estimate had gone up from £8.400 to £15,000. The Hospital Board seemed to do as it liked and hospital boards generally were coming to be looked upon as an extreme spending body in the country. The Mayor, Mr T. Jordan, said Councillor Kemp's remarks were not quite fair to the board, as it was in the hands of the authorities in Wellington. The fault was in an estimate made by an officer of the board.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 August 1943, Page 2
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178APPROVED WITH RIDER Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 August 1943, Page 2
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