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MEDICAL CONFERENCE SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFIT (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Wednesday The Minister of Health, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong, stated that a conference with the Eritish Medical Association to discuss piar.s for the introduction of a general practitioner scheme under part Ilf of the Social Security Act would be held early next month. Proposals had been prepared for submission to the association, Mr Armstrong said. The lull personnel of the Government representation at the conference had not been arranged. As Minister of Health he would attend and he would be supported by the chiefs of the Health Department. The Minister said that only a few doctors —he did not know the exact number —had contracted out of the maternity benefit scheme. They were practitioners who were not desirous of engaging in maternity practice.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21198, 22 August 1940, Page 9
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