Attorney-General ex rel Rathbone and McKay v Waipawa Hospital Board - [1970] NZLR 1148

Local government — Hospital Boards — Powers and duties — Supervisory powers of Minister — Land conveyed as site for maternity hospital and other hospital purposes — Donation from trust estate towards erection of Home — Government subsidy — Not a special purpose trust — Home operated and maintained by Board — Now uneconomic — Closure approved by Minister — Proposed sale subject to consent of Minister — Whether duty on Board to submit scheme to Court — Hospitals Act 1957, ss. 69, 73, 74 - Charitable Trusts Act 1957, ss. 32, 34, 36, 37.

Charities — Schemes of administration — Hospital Boards — Powers and duties as to property held by Board on trust and operated as maternity hospital — Now uneconomic — Closure approved by Minister — Proposed sale subject to consent of Minister — Whether duty on Board to submit scheme to Court — Charitable Trusts Act 1957, ss. 32, 34, 36, 37 - Hospitals Act 1957, ss. 69, 73, 74.