HOSPITAL MATTERS
MAINTENANCE DEFAULTERS. IMPURE MILK. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 24. The North Canterbury Hospital Board resolved that the Minister in Charge of Prisons be urged to amend existing legislation to provide that persistent defaulters in the matter of maintenance orders be employed on some form of remunerative work, their earnings to be applied to the maintenance of their families; and that other hospital boards be asked to co-operate in an endeavour to bring about immediate reform. .Tbs Hospital Board also resolved that si deputation should wait on the Prime Minister during his coming visit to Christchurch and"bring before his special notice the following matters(l) The necessity for immediately restoring the Government test of dairy milk with a view to discovering the whereabouts of tubercular cattle; . (2) that the Government be requested to bring down legislation providing for a properly-organ-ised scheme for the scientific treatment of tuberculosis throughout the dominion on the lines suggested by reports of the conference held in 1912.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18563, 25 May 1922, Page 8
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