IMPORTING DOCTORS
ORIGIN OF RUMOUR Auckland, This Day A rumour current to the effect thal the New Zealand Government was advertising in English newspapers for doctors to operate iff medical service scheme was discounted by inquiries in Auckland yesterday. A city doctor said he had received a copy of a London Da per with an advertisement inviting applications for appointments in the Health Department. A similar advertisement had appeared in New Zealand papers. Applicants had to hold the Diploma of Public Health, usually obtained in Britain, and it had been the practice to insert such advertisements in English papers. The appearance ot the advertisement soon after the arrival of the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon. P, Fraser, in England, has given colour tc the story that steps were being taken t< import doctors. There was nothing in the rumour, he added.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 4 August 1941, Page 6
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