A CLAMANT WANT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 79, 30 March 1912, Page 4

A CLAMANT WANT.

tiqmi c<>u bod f! i !*•><: ' 1 r• •11 T■ j 1 ;-.ill i. ! 1 , i 111 "’I -a 'A' t..» AVHANCj'AMOMONA’S NEED FQR A ) .■u'.fa.vmo ?; J)oCTOB. ,:> t’ iisoii ' 1 ib.. or MRl r "MASSEY* INDIGNANT. ■ FoA jfi A er .T -long time, indeed, the residents’of ’Whangamomona and Ko-, - J ' hurataliFhavo felt the need for a permanent doctor to he in their midst. Occasionally the residents have had to take rneh seriously injured, and sufferja<wMdly,''over Ahe. saddle, and all •*!.; the tld^v I 'odd'miles "lb Stratford, he-tc. fore tlijCV found’d doctor.’ Occasionally ■ 1 'the ’■ ipemcal ’'nian ; had faced, the; ter-*i f ror of‘the 1 saddles and come but'to the ’' ' backblocks. All this is nothing, new;: ■ • But' it is'H'ery singular, that whihrMn Masseyj Mr.'J; B. Hine, Mr. H. Okey, and Mr. G.K. Wilson were'at Whanga thisheed should be forced upon their attention 1 Mn such a striking manner. The settlers brought into, the hotel a bushmarfifMr. Jack Morrow, who had fallen do dm a gully while engaged on his world, I 'and had sustained serious injury. First aid had been rendered, and everything possible done, but the unforthntite man had to remain at the ■ hotel 1 all 1 .night, and was still there when the party left on the return journey. Pribably he would be taken over the satfdlte into Stratford if his condition permitted. All this time there was no one to give expert attention to his injuries. . In a sli'prt speech made to the residents of 11 'Whangamomona before he left’ fow'Kohuratahi, Mr. Massey said that he would like for just one moment to refer'hb the urgent need they had for the I 'services of a resident doctor. “It is O’ shame,” said Mr. Massey. “it is a shame!” .and those present applauded 1 Ills remark. “I tell you this,” cont'ruibcFMr. Massey, “after what I have so oh to-day I shall be able to speak in' 1 -the House with some authority, because I shall know about what I am speaking. One of the first things that Mr.. Hine and himself will do when Parliament assembled will be to see that’such a deplorable state of affairs is remedied, and something done to give the backblocks of Taranaki the medical ‘assistance it so urgently reqirrcd;’A- (Applause.)