Minister Admits State Can Kill Spirit
NEW PLYMOUTH, August 1. A foreeagt of Government assistance --0v Karitane Hospitals, was made by the (Minister of Health, Miss Howard, wlien she addressed the Opunake Plunket Society today. "The Government is closelv tied up with the Plunket Society for it pays a very large amount from the public funds to enable the society to carry on, and in the near future it will, I think, be helping with Karitane hospitai buildings too," she said. "But I do fcel that never must the Plunket So cietv lose its identitv. I do not think it should ever become a Government institution for if it did I think v\e should lose the real spirit of Plunket." (Miss Howard said she had enjoyed her term as Minister of Health fqr it brought her for the first time into close contact with women and children. "It is largelv a Ministrv wliere you can do things without political biekering," she added. "In health matters the political side doesn't come into it.'
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 August 1949, Page 6
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