OTAGO RESOLUTIONS

Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21525, 13 September 1941, Page 6

OTAGO RESOLUTIONS

CHANGES NOT FAVOURED DR. McMILLAN’S COMMENTS (By Telegraph.—Press Association) DUNEDIN, Saturday The Otago division of the B.M.A. passed the following resolutions:— “The Otago division, recognising the necessity of continuing to supply medical services to the community, pledges itself to continue the same, but firmly declines to accept service under this Amendment, if it should be passed by Parliament.” “That the medical practitioners of New Zealand cannot consider this amendment, or any other radical change in the conduct of medical practice, unless the proposals entailing such change are submitted for the opinion of all the practitioners absent on active service.” “That the Government’s offer of two years’ guaranteed income, after demobilisation does not meet the difficulty, that any radical changes made will adversely affect the welfare of medical men with 20 or 30 years’ active professional life.” Dr. D. G. McMillan. M.P., stated this morning that the motions did not represent the opinion of all the members of the division. “There are those who, believing in the traditional British system of constitutional Government, dissociate themselves from any incitement to law breaking by any section of the community,” he said.