Another council operated village and care operations sold after $500K losses per year

Dec 05 2011 Updated July 4, 2023

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Bland Shire Council has sold West Wyalong's Waratah Aged Care Village to Royal Freemasons Benevolent Institute after it made another $500,000 annual loss. First action is the redundancy of nine mostly part time nursing staff, replaced by two full time staff. How much the Freemasons paid is not known.

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