PIO PIO MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 588, 26 July 1913, Page 2

PIO PIO MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

The Editor. Sir, Might I crave permission to insert in your paper the following interesting letter relating to the Pio Pio Medical Association. A report appears in your issue of the I'Jth inat., headed "Pio Pio Medical Scheme," and purporting to be a report of the Pio Pio Medical Committee. The self- = tyled secretary, Mr G. Elliott, in addressing the also selfstyled committee (?), said that they were in an unpleasant and awkward position. Who placed them thus in such a position - ' Furthermore, he atßtes that, "owing to circumtances over which he had no control, he now finds himself tangled up in a Supreme Court action." Self martyrdom! Had Mr Elliott but accepted the decree of the subscribers at the lasc meeting convened oy Mr Wall he would have no necessity to be mixed up in any action. At his (Mr Elliott's) so styled "committee meeting" there were, in addition to himself, the large attendance of three; and this out of a total of thirteen. lam no committeeman, but I know the sentiments of the bulk of subscriber 3 , and that is, that the less Mr Elliott has to do with the association, the better. Now, Mr Elliott, at this meeting, attended by three colleagues, tables and reads correspondence —important correspondence in connection with tha medical association. If Mr Elliott were questioned upon the subject, I have no dcubt he would say that he was working in the interests of the public. Does he consider it is thsir interests to receive and retain such correspondence he being no longer secretary, for at the meeting convened by Mr Wall, he (Mr Elliott) had a magnificent following of thirteen out of a total of nearly seventy. How Mr Elliott was actuated in his motives is best known to himself. To the public they are inexplicable. There is an old saying that the best method of defence lies in attack. Mr Elliott had this in mind, when, knowing his own position on a rather unstable foundation, with an ingenuity and subtleness worthy of a Machiavelli, he concocted—one can use no other word —evidence against Mr Wall's and his committee'B actions. Let me assure Mr Elliott that the public has entire confidence in Mr Wall and his colleagues, termed by Mr Elliott, "the obstructionists," and, as with myself, it is the feeling of many that the association without Mr Elliott, is preferable to one in which he acts in any way in an official capacity. Several of Mr Elliott's socalled "committee" have beat an honourable retreat in resigning. I beg Mr Elliott to accept their verdict and cease hostilities, for in such a matter unanimity is essential, —1 am, etc..

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