DOCTORS AND LODGE FEES.
DISPUTE IN INVERCARGILL.
tßy Telegraph—Press Association.) : i _,"""'"", invep'cargi'li; December 17. The doctors of Invercnrgill, acting in unanimity, have sent in resignations of their positions as lodge doctors of the Friendly Societies in the town. This ' , action has arisen as the result of tho fall- • ing through of the negotiations which,for nine months or more have been conducted ! ; between the parties., Tho doctors';desire to have their agreement with the societies brought into line with those existing elsewhere in New Zealand, and ask that major operations shall not bo included as form- : ing part of a lodgo doctor's duties. The present agreement ."with '!''the«VFriendly' 1 Societies was/hiado thiity vears kza. ■'■■ The crux of tho present/dispute is: that;,tho : . medical meri ivisli operations to be paid for, and, this the lodges have refused to concede. The result, is that the lodgo ! .'■ surgeons gave three months' notice. Tho ; agreement whj.ch at present obtains is, from a medicsT-man'sjpoint/of view, decidedly inferiei existing in any other part of - the Dominion."
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1626, 18 December 1912, Page 8
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167DOCTORS AND LODGE FEES. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1626, 18 December 1912, Page 8
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