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Subsidies. South Canterbury: Section 38 (1), Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909, provides for payment of certain subsidies —"such sums as the said Minister thinks sufficient by way of subsidy." Provision should be made for payment of subsidy without the Minister's option in the matter, as at present the Boards have no assured income from subsidies. Otago : That the following portion of subclause (e) of subsection (2) of section 38 of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909—namely, " (i) One pound in respect of capital expenditure " —be deleted. That the Government be requested to draft a new clause in the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909, to provide a simpler method of calculation of subsidy on levies than that provided in paragraph (ii) of subclause (c) of subsection (2) and the Fourth Schedule, and that a uniform amount of subsidy- be payable to Boards on levies on local authorities. Gum Licenses and Boards' Revenue. Bay of Islands: That an extra charge be made for gum licenses. Extra revenue derived to go to Hospital Hoards in districts in which money is collected. " Curfew Law." Otago: That the Conference of Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards take into consideration the question of asking the Government to introduce legislation whereby what is known in some countries as " Curfew Law " may be enforced in this Dominion.

SUPPLEMENTARY AGENDA PAPER. FURTHER REMITS. To bE taken with Section 11, Under "Hours of Work and Duties of Hospital Nurses.'' Southland: That this Conference affirm the principle that a uniform scale of salaries should be paid to hospital nurses by the different Boards of the Dominion. Under " Hospital Economics." North Canterbury: The policy of directly importing supplies for the requirements of hospitals and charitable institutions. Cutler " Hospital Finance." Waikato : That, where a Hospital and Charitable Aid Board has non-local governing localities within its district, and has borrowed by way of overdraft for the purpose of capital expenditure in construction of buildings, &c, and the local governing bodies within the hospital district desire to borrow under the State-guaranteed Advances Department to pay off such Hospital and Charitable Aid Board overdraft, the Government should make a direct grant to such Board towards the payment of its building-construction expenditure of a sum of not less than the proportion which would be raised by such non-local-governing district had it been a locally governed district. North Canterbury : The extension of borrowing-powers for the purposes of erecting additional buildings, such powers being at present restricted because Boards are not " local bodies." To BE TAKEN WITH SECTION IV. Under " Some Charitable-aid Problems." Southland : That section 85, subsection (1), of the Hospitals Act, 1909, should be amended by striking out the words at the close of the section after the word " district," and substituting the words. " wherein the child is or has been domiciled prior to the making of the order." Tn be TAKEN t'nder Section V. General. Hawke's Bay: That provision be made in the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act whereby a county may be divided between two or more hospital districts. Wanganui: That the Board should appoint its own quorum. That the law be altered so that country districts can elect representatives to the Board so long as those elected are qualified in any part of the hospital district. Wellington: That the services of the assistants in the hospital dispensaries in the four large centres be counted as a qualification for obtaining their certificates as chemists. North Canterbury : That section 36 be amended to read that all the words after " except " in the second line be omitted and the following substituted —viz., " by the Chairman on the resolution of the Board, and attested by two members."