WAIMATE HOSPITAL IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 21, 15 October 1898, Page 5

WAIMATE HOSPITAL IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Tne'Hon. Mr Twomey speaking on the Separate Institutions Bill, after some introductory remarks justifying the main-

taining of the Hospital at Waimate, and the technical difficulty .which had arisen between the "South Canterbury Charitable Aid Board ,and 'Jhe,, W-aimate Hospital Board of Trustees, went on to say that the Waimate County Council contributed J61050 annually to the District Board. The Borough contributed JgdOr.rh'aking 1 a total* of'-^HOO, and on this they got a subsidy of pound for pound, making a total of L 2200. In , addition to this* there was a local subscription of L 37 10s; and on this they got a subsidy of LI 4s in the pound, from the Government, making total, of^ about rJ " E2282. "Nbw7oTtnTs,~all that was paid back to the Waimate Hospital was about Ll2OO, and the Waimate people cohsidereci they had a perfect 'right to" more of this money. At any rateVthey'h"ad a right to a little money to 'build additions to iheir • hospital. . Eecently,.a large estate was cut up there ; also a large educational reserve was exchanged for land in some other part of the county, and "'several village 1 settlements had sprung up in the district, and the population of- m? district had i gradually increased. ' In consequent 'of ' • this ■- increase, more accommodation" was necessary ih^the, Waimaije, Hospital, and- - for this reason asking, that ' power , might ' be the,, District Board to enable, them v> to , '.contribute towards the making; of some necessary additions to the, hospital. That>was;he thought, all that was -necessary. With , regard to the general scope of the measure he did>not-wishito N say one-word, _ appeared to him there was a clause in'it' i_ which must be -considerably- modified, and that was the clause-which insisted upon voluntary contrjbulioJa of LlOO a year to entitle, a,separjate-,mstijtu.tipn~to be carried on. meant that the Waimate /-> saparaVe institutibW andjjal^*other luistiiu-^ t tions would be'Jnlledl fo|"it/woul4 % ntuxt ,j to impossibly tofget^pepple T tor contribute LIOO a year Sunder .existing circumstances.; He Jbel4 -that, -jif gates' were4evied, it was* only* fabr.and, right/that tallythese institutions- sho.uldi be .(maintained* out'" 6f-the % „- jatesVoandy that t no.sr6liance* pughtj'tb '■be ' on private benevolence".