CLERGYMAN'S CURE
REPLY TO HEALTH MINISTER A DIRECT CHALLENGE (Special to "The Evening Post") AUCKLAND, This Day. In a rejoinder to the Hon. A. J. Stallworthy's statement regarding his treatment for tuberculosis, and the attitude of tho Department of Health, the Rev. E. Ward says, in a statement given to the "Star":— "It is obvious that there was a good deal more than paltry financial consideration in the way of giving the treatment a trial. Mr. Stallworthy's reiteration of the statement about the failure of my negotiations with the Department is apparently based on a belief that a mis-statement made loudly enough and often enough will eventually be accepted by the public as true. By way of answer to the Minister's latest utterance, I would give the following quotations: 'I cannot honestly recommend the Minister of Health to take any further steps in the matter' (Director-General of Health), and 'I do not consider I would be justified in recommending the Minister to allow Mr. Ward £250 per annum' (DirectorGeneral of Health), also the Minister's own statements, namely, 'From the moment Mr. Ward interviewed me at Auckland I promptly did all that was reasonably possible to secure for him a fair and unbiased trial of his claimed remedy. There is no truth at air in the statement made that paltry financial consideration stood in the way of giving his claimed remedy a trial.' " Mr. Ward says it is clear that the wholo force of tho Department of Health is in the way of giving the. treatment a fair trial. By way of re;'y,to Mr. Stallworthy's statement that Mr. Ward-failed to fulfil his undertaking, the originator of the tuberculosis treatment now offers to give the Rev. Jasper Calder £50, to be used in work among the poor, if the minister will produce documentary evidence that he -failed in any undertaking given to the Department' The offer is made conditionally, the minister having, to undertake to donate a similar sum in the event of failure to produce evidence.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 37, 13 February 1930, Page 11
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335CLERGYMAN'S CURE Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 37, 13 February 1930, Page 11
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