FIGHTING THE DOCTORS’ BILL

Evening Star, Issue 24003, 30 September 1941, Page 10

FIGHTING THE DOCTORS’ BILL

FLOOD OF LETTERS TO MEMBERS iP.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 29. An advertised appeal by the opponents of the Government’s medical practitioner service plan for those who agree with them to telegraph or write their protest to their member of Parliament has been productive of result. The Leader of the Opposition, Mr S. G. Holland, said to-day that he had received hundreds of such protests, including a large number by mail to-day. li, vns no new practice, Mr Holland said, for those who felt strongly about contentious legislation to write to members’ of Parliament and express their grievance, but ho had not before known such a volume of response. Mr H, S. S. Kyle, M.P., said that in his experience most of the letters came when a Bill was under discussion in the House of Representatives, especially when speeches were being broadcast as in recent years. It was a frequent practice in New Zealand for constituents to write to their member, but it was rare that advertisements should ask them to do it.