HAPPY SETTLEMENT
DOCTORS AND STATE MATERNITY SERVICE (Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. A happy consummation of a very difficult position was the description given by the acting-Prime Minister, the Hon. P. Fraser, in the House of Representatives to-day to clauses of the Social Security Bill incorporating the agreement of the medical profession for acceptance of maternity contracts. The profession had an objection to individual contracts and the arrangement complied with their requirements. “What is being done about the general practitioner service,” asked the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes (Nat., Hurunui). The reply by Mr. Fraser was that the doctors frankly objected to it. The Government proposed to open negotiations with them. “As 'in international affairs,” he added, 'it is better to negotiate a settlement than to have war and negotiate a settlement afterwards. It is better to have a peaceful settlement provided that no principle that this House has decided will be sacrificed.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20055, 29 September 1939, Page 8
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153HAPPY SETTLEMENT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20055, 29 September 1939, Page 8
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