BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
• o ANNUAL CONFERENCE. (P©r Press Association.) Wanganui, February 24. The annual Conference of the New Zealand branch of the British Medica Association opened here this evening, under he presidency of Dr. H. H Hatterly, of Wanganui. Some.forty soven delegates have already arrived and others are expected to-morrov The president’s address was on tlu subject of the relative value of health and education and was in the m'ain an able plea for less cram and more persuasion, a material modification pf the compulsory provisions pf the Education Act, a substantially reduced and more elastic syllabus and a wider re' cognition of the wisdom of the advice given by Socrates more thrfn two thou sand years ago: “Bring not up your children by compulsion and fear, but by playing and pleasure.”
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 48, 25 February 1913, Page 8
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