SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS
PLIGT OF RUNANGA PROPOSED ACTION BY MINERS Greymouth, This Day. The mining industry in the Runanga area, including the State mine, may come to a standstill if a doctor is not secured within three weeks. The present district doctor is leaving for Timaru this month and advertisements for a successor obtained only one reply, from a German-Jewish refugee who is not registered for practice in the Dominion. A meeting of Runanga Coal Miners’ Medical Society decided yesterday to postpone decision for a week to give an opportunity to the Government to assist to obtain a doctor.—P A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 4 August 1941, Page 5
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