MEDICAL AID
GREAT BARRIER CASES RESIDENT DOCTOR WANTED CONSIDERATION PROMISED Representations that a subsidised doctor should be placed permanently on Great Barrier Island are being made to tho Auckland Hospital Board by the New Zealand Timber Workers' Union. It is felt by tho union that such an arrangement should bo made to provide for urgent cases of sickness or accident. Tho secretary of the union, Mr. F. Craig, stated yesterday that 50 men were employed by a company cutting timber at Whangaparapara. Accidents had occurred from time to time, including one fatality. Under the timber workers' award, first-aid kits had to bo available, but it was considered by the union that bettor arrangements should be made for the protection of those on the island. The chairman of tho Hospital Board, Mr. Allan J. Moody, said yesterday afternoon that when the union's communication camo before a meeting of the board it Avould be carefully considered. The board had already arranged to improvo the nursing sorvico on the island. In addition, the question of providing an aircraft for emergency cases to bo brought to the Auckland Hospital had been successfully taken up by the board.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23381, 24 June 1939, Page 16
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193MEDICAL AID New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23381, 24 June 1939, Page 16
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