MANY WRITTEN PROTESTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 230, 30 September 1941, Page 6

MANY WRITTEN PROTESTS

THE MEDICAL BILL RESPONSE TO ADVERTISEMENTS (Press A>sn.) Christchurch, Sept. 29. The advertised appeal by opponents of the Government’s medical practitioner service plan for those who agree with them to telegraph or write their protest to their member of Parliament has been productive of results. The Leader of the Opposition. Mr. S. G. Holland said to-day that he had received hundreds of such protests, including a big number in the ma : l to-day. It was no new practice, Mr. Holland said for those who felt stronerly about contentious legislation to write to members of Parliament and exnress their grievance, but he had net before known such a volume of response. Mr. H. S. S. K; M.P. for Riccarton, said that in hi- experience most of the letters came -. hen the Bill was under discussion in the House of Representatives. especally when the speeches were being broadcast, as in recent years. It was a frequent practice in New Zealand for constituents to write to their member but it was rare that advertisements should ask them to do it.