HOSTILE MOVE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 83, 4 October 1930, Page 13

HOSTILE MOVE

NimSES ANT) MIDWKES

OPPOSITION IN COUNCIL

Some opposition to the Nuises and IMuhuves Registration Amendment Bill was <*\piesscd m the Logislatrvc Coun <il jesterdaj afternoon, and an amendment that'the Bill should be committed 3i\ months hence was still uudci discussion, when the Council adjourned at 3 o'clock until Tuesday

The .Hon. fr. J. Gailand said the people of I\cw Zealand would b^e m debted to Paihamcnt if the Bill was jiis&odj as its piowsions wore most domi able. Th tii o was, not a tittle of cm> deuce to show that the recipiocal ainngement between England and New Zsalnnd would be interfered with.

The Hon. Dr. W. L, Collins said the council of the British Medical Associa tion h&a passed a motion unanimously suppoitmg the Bill, piovidcd the icciprocal anangement was not-endangered He felt the Bill would be ot great as sistaneo to those people who weie^not m.a position to pay lull hospital lee's. Dr. Colhus said theie weie thuteen pri vato hospitals m Wellington, with 212 beds.

The Hon. A. S. Malcolm opposed the Bill on the ground that it was the thin end of the wedge for the destiuction of the system ot public establishment and control of hospital. The public hospitals had lenderod excellent seiyicc to the Dominion, and he saw no reason wliy they should bo tampered t ith He could undeist mrl that the doetois weie suppoitmg the Bill, as thej weie interested poisons, although he admitted that the doctors did cxi client soiMdo vi 'the public hospitals ml . n honorary capacity, lie moved .is an amendment that the Bill should he committed th-il day six months Hie Hon. D. Euddo said he had al wu}-> been satisfied with the control o± Hie public hospitals. The mam objeelion to the Bill was the fen that the jccipiocal arrangement with Gicat s ßritam would bicak down, but he did not see that that was at all likely.

.The Hon. W. H. Triggs said Mr. Malcolm.had advanced no real aigu jnents against the Bill, but had lcsortcd to the1 old oppositionist tactics of talkang about "the thin end of the wedge." Tho.Hon. W. Snodgrass said the Bill was entirely unnecessary, and ho _ aid •not propose to support it. He paid a ivarm tribute to the work earned out 5n public hospitals, and went on to say that the same standaid oi training was •not a\ailable m pmatc hospitals as in. public hospitals. The Hon. L M. Isitt said he could not understand what all the fuss was -ibout, the Bill could not be clearei or inoro definite., All they had to do -was to see that the piescnt standard of training was maintained, and the Bill made provision for that. The Hon. J. A. Hanan said il was ■the Nurses' Association which had bionght about reciprocity and the nurses did Hot want the Bill passed until they were assured that iceipio * lty was not imperilled, ■the dobtao was adjourned.