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King Country Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 1894, 29 November 1923, Page 6

| The sixpenny London doctor who has been memorialised between book covers l is almost paralleled here by the Women's Hospital in Surrey Hills (remarks a Sydney correspondent). At this place sixpence is charged for advice—if the patient can afford it—and visits have been made for the same optional fee. Medicine is supplied for threepence, to cover the cost of the bottle, on the return of which the money is refunded. And this is no cheap and nasty establishment. On the contrary, the doctors are all thoroughly qualified, so are the dispensers, and the medicines are "true to label." It is, in fact, a voluntary charity, run by women doctors and patronised by people from all parts of the city and suburbs. It has been supported in the past by voluntary subscription, and now finds the demands upon it so heavy that assistance is being asked from the public by a more or less systematic canvass for funds.

"There is not the slightest doubt of this," said Mr R. Wright, during his address on cable development before the Wellington Rotary Club last v eek: "New Zealand is the best served country from a telegraphic point cf \iew in the world, both regarding cheapness and for efficiency. I do not think it it passible to better our present system."