GOVERNMENT CERTIFICATES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 150, 20 March 1919, Page 5

GOVERNMENT CERTIFICATES

EPIDEMIC WORKERS WILL NOT HAVE THEM. 'it yesterday's meeting of tho Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board and the group commanders who helped to fight the epidemic in November last, the matter of the certificates being issued to workers by tho Government was intr< duced by Mr. H. Tolan (commander of the Hataitai district). It was not, Btriotly speaking, a matter for the meeting, but he would like to know what other commanders thought of tho idea. His committoe was not in favour of it. lii his opinion no such certificate was necessary. Most of them had agreed that a Government certificate was quite uncalled for. They had not worked fpr payment or for a certificate, but more in the spirit of the brotherhood of man. Ho was rather surprised to find that the Government had thought fit to issue a. bit of paper with a signature attached to it. , A voice: He likes the signature to got found. , , Another speaker (sotto voce): Theres an c-leelion this year! , , The Rev. Robertson Orr said that some of his people wanted the certificates. Ho had not tho slightest objection—if they wanted them, lot them apply for them. If tho Government, in tho goodness and geneiosity of its heart, wished to throw aivav money in that direction he did not Bee why it should not have tho pleasure of distributing the certificates, (laugh-' S G Nathan disagreed absolutely •«nr.!i tlie certificate idea. They had done the work voluntarily in tho interests of the community as a whole, and did not. want any certificates to 6how it. Mr "John Smith did not approve the proposal and Mr. B. G. H. Burn, whilst not favouring the idea, said that those who wanted them had better apply for them personally. . "Tho3o who worked," said Mr. Baldwin "gave their services for the love of humanity. I have advised my district against the proposal to accept tho certificates." Mr T. Gray said he personally was opposed to the Government idea. ■I'li-aily, it was moved that those present disapprove of the Government proivKal to distribute certificates among epidemic workers. The resolution was carwith one ironical dissentient voice— that of the Rev. Robertson Orr.

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