AVERSE TO WRANGLE

Evening Star, Issue 23000, 4 July 1938, Page 8

AVERSE TO WRANGLE

PREMIER ON B.M.A. CRITICS THE PEOPLE WILL DECIDE [From Our Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, July 4. In the controversy between the Prime Minister and the British Medical Association, Mr Savage is averse to continuing the discussion with Dr Jamieson, the. president; for as he expressed it today, “1 will say quite definitely that Dr Jamieson has turned the discussion into political propaganda, and 1 am not concerned about that. 1 am more interested about providing the service to the people. 1 will not carry the wrangle further. The representatives of the people in Parliament will have to decide the case, and after that is over the people themselves will decide. “ If they do not want it, they know what to do with the Govern* ment. “ There is nothing I can tell Dr Jamieson that is likely to be in the bill that he is not fully aware of.. There is no alteration or the principle, but simply an extension of the income limits. It is now a question of working out in legal shape the principles put before the Parliamentary Committee and before the New Zealand members of the British Medical Association by Dr M'Millan’s committee long before the Parliamentary Committee sat. The medical men gave evidence individually and collectively before Dr M'Millan’s committee, and Dr M'Millan interviewed them all over the country. I do not know any section of the community that got greater consideration than the B.M.A. on this occasion.