MEDICAL CONFERENCE
• • WANG-ANUI, 24th February. The annual • conference, of the New Zealand branch of the' Bi'HiA Medical Association opened here this evening under the presidency of Dr. H. R. Hatherly, ot Wanganui. Some fortyseven delegates have already arrwea, and others j are expected to-morrow. The president's address was* on the relative values of health and education, and was in the main an able plea, for lees cram and more persuasion, a material modification of the compulsory provisions of tho 'Education Act, asubstan-' tially reduced and more elastic syllabus, and a wider recognition of the wisdom of the advice given by Socrates more than two thousand years ago: "Bring not up your children by compulsion and fear,, t>tft by playing and pleasure."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 27, 25 February 1913, Page 3
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121MEDICAL CONFERENCE Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 27, 25 February 1913, Page 3
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