CONFERENCE CONCLUDES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 35, 11 February 1939, Page 14

CONFERENCE CONCLUDES

NEW ZEALAND HOSPITAL BOARDS. FURTHER REMITS DEALT WITH [ Per Press Association.] NEW PLYMOUTH, Feb. 9. The business of the conference of the New Zealand Hospital Association was concluded at New Plymouth this morning, delegates being taken on a sightseeing tour in the borough and environs during the afternoon.

Remits relating to the 'operation of the Social Security Act were referred to the executive with the request that it co-opt five executive officers of the boards to assist in preparing the case to be presented to the Minister. State lotteries as a means of financing hospitals were not favoured. Two remits on the subject, one from Mangonui and the other from Buller were lost. The creation of a national council against tuberculosis was the subject of a Palmerston North remit that was carried unanimously. The remit sought the early formulation of a treatment scheme and investigation of accommodation in South Otago. A remit that the incidence of taxation in respect of hospital board finance be revised so that the burden falls more equitably upon the community was carried.

The conference approved a Waiapu remit that the Government subsidy to the boards should be influenced by the proportion oi non-ratepaying native land in the districts.

Unanimous support was accorded a Mangonui proposal that it should be the duty of maintenance officers or police to follow up every case in which a maintenance order was made to see that payments were made in accordance with the order.

Matters raised by a deputation from the New Zealand Trained Nurses’ Association and remits relating to salaries and living-in of nurses were referred to the executive for consideration.