"TOO MANY SCOTS."

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 261, 3 November 1928, Page 19 (Supplement)

"TOO MANY SCOTS."

" FOREIGN ELEMENT."

When the Leeds City Council was asked bv the Health Committee approve "the appointment of a Scottish medical man as medical superintendent of the Citv Hospital at Seacroft, at a salary of £850 a year, with house, coal, and light, exception was talcen to the prooosal bv Alderman A. E. Masser. Movin? the reference back of the minute, lie called attention to the fact that of the four candidates for the post left in the short list three were Scotsmen and the other was a locallytrained man. "I am a Leeds man, he exclaimed, "and where a Leeds hoy has eot the qualifications, things being equal. I would give such a lad the job. Unfortunatelv, the tendency is to scour Scotland when anybody is wanted for these medical posts. When you go to any department of the Health Committee of Leeds vou cannot understand the officials you meet. They are aU Scotch. (Lauehter). " ' "Tbines have, reached such a point that the Health Committee mierht as well adopt the thistle and the kilt and the motto, 'Scotland for ever. No Englishmen need apply.' (Renewed laughter ) Personally, I am strongly agamst the introduction of the foreign element when you have .a man on the spot fit to take the job." Dr Friend, seconding, said that me and death jobs" ought to be above party •pip >m «»~iwi«nt WJHL defeated.