PARLIAMENT

Grey River Argus, 8 July 1943, Page 2

PARLIAMENT

E.P.S. AND OSTEOPATHS. WELLINGTON, July 2. - Owing to the new war situation, and taking into account the needs of industry, it is inadvisable to put a strain on people unnecessarily, said the Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser) when the House met at 10.30 this morning, replying to a question by Mr. Lee, regarding the necessity for E.P.S. training. Mr. Lee had asked if the Minister of National Service was aware that a course of 35 compulsory lectures had been arranged by the local E.P.S., and whether it was not time that more of our wartime bureaucracies were liquidated. Mr. Fraser stated that the whole question of E.P.S. training was under immediate consideration, and he was expecting a report at any time. in a -notice of a question to the Minister of Defence, Mr. Sutherland drew attention to a report of a Court case in Wellington in which a young man was convicted of unlawfully wearing a Military Medal ribbon. He j asked if the Minister would take the ( necessary steps to tighten the control I at Armv Headquarters to prevent a| recurrence of the unjustified issue of | decoration ribbons. According to the report, he said the young man had obtained the ribbon at Headquarters by merely representing that he had been sent by a Lieutenant Colonel. The Prime Minister: I question whether it is as easy as that.

Reporting on behalf of the Public Health Committee on the Osteopathic Practitioners Bill, Mr. Anderton stated the Committee recommended that the Bill be not allowed to proceed. The Committee, however, expressed the opinion that the Government should introduce a Bill securing a measure of control over persons engaging in the practice of healing, other than those already recognised in New Zealand by statute. Mr. Anderton said the recommendation made against the Bill being allowed to proceed was because it would involve appropriation of public money. Mr. McKeen said he hoped that something would soon be done to recognise members of the profession, and to encourage others, who cared to take it up. j Mr. Kyle asked why was the Do- ’ minion providing a first-class medical education if it was going to import osteopaths? If these men wished to practise in New Zealand, they should go through our own medical j schools. Y.M.C.A. WAR MEMORIAL. F.A. WELLINGTON, July 2. An announcement has been made, by the President of the' Wellington Y.M.C.A. (Mr. R. H. Nimmo) of the' hope of the Association to launch a great communal recreational centre in Wellington as a memorial to the men of New Zealand who have fought overseas. The proposal is to establish on land adjoining the present building in upper Willis Street a centre in which will be incorporated an Olympic swimming pool, a solarium for heat and orthopaedic treatment, and other facilities, not only for the assistance of the men returning, but for the recreation and physical welfare of future New Zealand youth,