Patea Residents Irked
(N.Z. Press Association) HAWERA, August 4. Patea residents were today indignant because of what the Mayor, Mr A. H. Prince, described as “the great disservice” done to the area by the N.Z.B.C. television programme “Compass” screened last night. People of Patea had believed the programme would
discuss impartially the decision of the Minister of Health (Mr McKay) to abolish the Patea, Hawera and Stratford hospital districts and .merge them with the Taranaki board’s district, with one board controlling the whole of the province’s medical services.
But the programme centred entirely on Patea and irate residents claimed today that a deliberate attempt had been made to portray Patea as a
“decadent ghost town rapidly becoming more ghostly.” Mr V. S. Young, M.P. for Egmont, was also strongly critical of the programme. Any town or city had its dark spots, but to present these to the exclusion of the many fine amenities in the town was most unfair, he said. Because of its geographical position Patea was not growing as fast as some other areas, but it was certainly not dying, he said.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31440, 5 August 1967, Page 38
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