MANAIA DISTRICT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 13 July 1917, Page 4

MANAIA DISTRICT.

MEDICAL NEEDS

At the meeting of the Waimate West County Council the chairman brought up the matter of the medical needs of the district. He said Dr Milroy having been called up, this would leave aj| large district without a doctor. If there was to be conscription, the authorities should take the whole of the doctors and place them where required. He did not wish to do anything to hamper the authorities, but ] ■> considered they were justified in making a protest that organisation was required.

Cr Stevenson agreed with the chairman that a protest should be made, when there was a congestion of doctors in the large centres.

Cr Le Fleming 6aid he was in sympathy with the protest, but they should not tie the 'hands of the authorities.

Doctors, he added, were urgently required at the front. Cr Long thought that arrangements could be made to send to places like Manaia older men or men not fit for active service. The Efficiency Board should have made representations to the Appeal Board. The chairman thought it a great wrong to leave the district without a medical man. He would point out that the Efficiency Board had no authority until the matter had gone before the Appeal Board. A motion was carried that, in the event of Dr Milroy being taken, the Government be asked to appoint another doctor in his place, and that strong representations to, this effect be made to the Military Service Appeal r Board.

Cre Budge and Le Fleming wer» deputed to attend the public meeting at Manaia on Friday night.