LODGE DOCTORS RESIGN.
(By Telegraph—Pres. Aeocfciaon.) IXVERCABGILL, thi, day The doctors of Inveneaigni, acting in unanimity, have sent iTrlsignatione 5 their positions as lodge doctors of the towns friendly sorietiee. This act £* has arisen as a resnit o f the jffi through of negotiations which for nine months or more have been conducted be tweesi the parties. The doctors desire that their agreement with the societies should be brought into line -with those existing elsewhere in New Zealand and that major operations should not be in eluded as forming part of a lodge doctor's duties. The present agreement between the friendly societies was made 30 years ago. The crux of the present dispute is that the medical men wish operations to be paid for, and this the lodges have refused to concede. The result" is that the lodge surgeons have given three months' notice. The agreement which obtains at present is—from a medical man's point of view —decidedly inferior to that existing in any other part of the Dominion.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 302, 18 December 1912, Page 8
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