MEDICAL BENEFITS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23830, 9 June 1939, Page 15

MEDICAL BENEFITS

1-0 THE EDITOR Sir,—l shall try to answer “M.D.’s” letter of this morning’s date as respectfully as I can and leave my bantering style in abeyance. When I wrote that I “ wad’na preshume ” I meant that I did not presume to interfere in a matter that concerned the doctors only. I have always got on well with the doctors though I cannot recall one who was on my side in politics or one who interfered with the free action of any Government I helped to elect until now. I am a supporter of political principles, not necessarily political parties. My first vote went in support of the Tory Government and it has gpne to that side of the House ever since. I voted against the Labour Party when it helped to defeat the Ballance and Seddoh Governments. But the Labour Party, like the rest of us, learns by its mistakes, and I am now supporting the Savage Government, so I resent the doctors’ party interfering with what is my affair. I am aware that the job that the Government has on hand is too big for it. So was the job that the previous Government had on hand too big for it. So are the lobs of most Governments at present too big for them. It is, therefore, natural to be impatient of nagging criticism such as I regard that of the doctors party. I trust that I have not overlooked anything of importance—-in renly to me—in the letters of ‘ NLD. —I am, etc., A. H. Dunedin. June 7. TO THE EDITOR Sir,—ln your issue of even date a correspondent, “M. D.,” states that Mr Harrison and Mr W. D. Mason have refrained from giving him an explanation of Labour’s new culture, etc. ‘ Ine new culture ’' exists in your correspondent’s fertile imagination alone. Labour stands now, as ever, for the best interests of the whole of the people, not the class or professional interest, of a section. My reason for ignoring “M. D.’s ” question was the impertinence of a correspondent who repeatedly asks his opponents. “Are you afraid or ashamed? ” etc., whilst “M. D.’ proves himself to be either afraid or ashamed, or both, to sign his name to his offensively suggestive letters. Let him come out in the open and deal with the questions raised by me in the letter he refers to and stop his hair-splitting irrelevances, and I will perhaps satisfy his readers that “ M D.” doesn’t matter. — I am. etc., W. D. Mason. Middlemarch. June 7.