THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
SIR O. NIEMEYER AS A PHYSICIAN “The physician has offered neither stimulants in the form of promises to meet Australia’s requirements., in London, nor hypnotics in the shape 6f assurances that the remarkable recuperative capacity of Australia would bring .everything right eventually,” Mr Will Appleton told members of the Chamber of, Commerce at Auckland. “Instead of offering the sympathy of a popular doctor with a charming bedside manner, Sir Otto Niemeyer has, in fact, told the patient that diet will have to he cut down and that energy and work are vital necessities. The attitude of Sir Otto in respect to the. railway deficits is particularly illuminnltiingf. Every State has been complaining on this score, but it seems curious that it should have, been necessary to bring a man all the way from London to tell the Government thatso long as they pay wages , based not. on economic conditions, but on somefantastic conception of a. basic wage,, it is no use asking for help.”,..
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1930, Page 4
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168THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1930, Page 4
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