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EMPLOYMENT OF OVERSEAS MEN ADVOCATED (Special) WELLINGTON, June 10. The employment of qualified medical men from overseas was advocated by Mr J. O'Brien (Govt.. Westland) in a question to the Minister of Health, Mr A. H. Nordmeyer, of which he gave notice in the House of Representative's this afternoon. He will ask the Minister to consider such a move with a view to giving medical services to country districts. _ . "The whole of Westland. from Hanhari to Jackson's Bay, has been without the services of a doctor for several months, and the important district of Kumara, the staple industry of which is the dangerous one of sawmilling, has'been unable to obtain a resident doctor for years," Mr O'Brien said in a note to his question.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24630, 11 June 1941, Page 6
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