IDEALS OF B.M.A.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 245, 13 September 1935, Page 9

IDEALS OF B.M.A.

POOLING OF INTERESTS. INTO ONE BROTHERHOOD. “ACT IN PUBLIC INTEREST.” (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received September 13, 8.50 a.m. MELBOURNE, Sept. 13. The formal proceedings at the B.M.A. Congress end to-day. The visitors are enthusiastic over the elaborate plans made for their entertainment in Melbourne and have expressed amazement on learning that some of the Australian members liavo had to travel 3000 nines to attend the congress. The aims of the association were outlined at the annual dinner of the association lust night by Dr E. K. Le Fleming, who said it sought the pooling of the sectional interests of the profession into one great brotherhood.. It was a very definite object tiiat no association policy should conflict with the public interest. “For that reason alone, we are no trades union,” said the speaker. “Sometimes we are called the strongest trades-union in the world. That is tne greatest tribute that could be paid, for our strength coines irom the fact that we know we act in the public interest. Every citizen has the right to have at his command the best medical service at a cost within his means. It is up to us as an association to show the way to that goal, keeping the question ot health aliovo party politics. It is the duty of every member to keep tho evil of commercialism from the profession.”