Locums For Doctors
House surgeons in the employ of the Otago Hospital Board are to be permitted to do locum tenens work for doctors needing a holiday or taken ill. The chairman of the board, Dr. D. G. McMillan, stated that there was “no nigger in the woodpile,” as the chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board suspected. The proposal originated with the profession itself, it lieing recognised that some doctors had unable during the war years to obtain relief and urgently needed a holiday.-—P.A,
License Application Refused An application for a license to import eating potatoes from Australia to relieve the present shortage in the North Island has bet n refused by the Government. A large surplus of potatoes has been reported in Australia, and an effort to obtain supplies from there was made by the Auckland Grain. Seed and Produce Merchants’ Association through the New Zealand federation.—P.A.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21753, 30 June 1945, Page 6
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148Locums For Doctors Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21753, 30 June 1945, Page 6
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