NOT HEALTH SCHEME
SOCIAL SECURITY ACT
LABOUR DOCTOR STEPS ASIDE
(By Teletrraph7!-Presß Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 22.
Dr. R. E. Hope-Pearson, a Labour member of the North Canterbury Hospital Board, has resigned. He explained that he could not conscientiously support the Social Security Act. There was nothing in the scheme, he said, to provide for the prevention of sickness and disease. The scheme was >a sickness scheme and not a health scheme.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 73, 23 September 1938, Page 15
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71NOT HEALTH SCHEME Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 73, 23 September 1938, Page 15
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