DOCTORS AND THEIR FEES
FREQUENT "STRIKES." NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT ASKED TO INTERFERE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.— Copyright. SYDNEY, 6th February. A deputation from the mining community of Newcastle district waited on Mr. J. H. Cann (Colonial Secretary and Minister of Mines) to request him to import at least twenty-five doctors from abroad in order to break down the strikes of members of the British Medical Association. The spokesmen of the deputation said they considered that it was the. duty of the Government to unravel the difficulty The British Medical Association should be asked to show cause for the increased demands. The people they (the «eputation) represented did not want any further conference. Mr. Cann, in reply, said he was afraid it was too big an undertaking for the Government to supply every township with a doctor. The English doctors were also members of the association. He urged the advisability of a further conference, and said that the Government would do whatever was posible to bring about a meeting that would be honourable to both parties.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 32, 7 February 1914, Page 5
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