DOCTORS TAXED

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 2977, 11 March 1933, Page 7

DOCTORS TAXED

ANNUAL .MEDICAL TEI

MINISTER EXPLAINS DECISION' (Per Press Association) Wellington, March JO A denial that lie had misre" presented (lie position concernin'- the amount of the annual practising fee to be paid bv medical practitioners, was made lsv the Minister of Education, lion. P. Masters, to-dov. “All I can say,” said the Minister, ”is that ihe- Medical Council, which consists wholly of medical) practitioners, had referred to it, with the authority of the Minister of Health, the question as to whether the medical profession should pay an an nual practisinc fee sufficient to cover tin 1 cost of the administration of the Medical Council. 1 am advised that a fee of 5s was succested, but was considered to he undignified, and that the council ha.il represented that a fee of one guinea would be preferable . There is a nominate.l nieiuber of th B.M.A. on the Medieal-Couue.il, tuid this representative was present at the meeting., It, will he seen, theretore. that 1 correctly stated the position, and that there has been no misrepresent a t ion on my pa rt Tliis statement is confirmed bv mv eolT-ague, the Minister of Health.”