TELEGRAMS

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11966, 20 June 1907, Page 4

TELEGRAMS

Per United Press Association. DOCTORS TND~PRiENDLY SOUIETIES. Wellington, June 19. Delegates from tho various Friendly Societies in the colony nret representative medical men in Wellington to consider various matters. It was decided : That a conference be held between a committee from the. Friendly Societies and a committee from the divisions of the New Zealand branch of the Medical Association,^ consider the question of, fees. Thatiin the event of a disagreement between a society or branch, and its medioal officer, or between the lodge and the Medical Association, the matter be submitted to a committee drawn from the looal division of the New Zealand Branch of the Medical Association, and the branch concerned ; if the committee fail to agree, the matter to be submitted to arbitrators, one to be appointed by each party. That in the event of candidates being passed by the medical officer, and such oandidate being installed, tho quarterly medical fee of the members be paid to the medioal officer examining such candidate. In cases of rejected candidates the examination fee be os. The Conference could not' endorse the suggestion that no person paying income tax should be entitled to lodge benefits. It was also decidedthat the widowed mother of a single member should fee entitled to medical attendance provided she is dependent on such member. These resolutions were agreed to only contingently on the part of the doctors, who made it clear that they had not full power to act for the whole of the medical profession engaged in lodge work, as the Friendly Societies' delegates were.