A WAIHI DISCUSSION.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43070, 19 March 1907, Page 4

A WAIHI DISCUSSION.

- ' At the last meeting of the Wai'hi Hospital Trustees Dr. I Deck stated • that there was a rumour afloat in the . town to the effect that he was not. a v,'/- member of any medical association. ~ i He bad been a member of the British Medical Association. He had not received any information from .. 'the tNeiw Zealand Association that he was an undesirable man as a medical mam in this hospital. One of the trustees had used the term that he was .a black leg. But- that gentle- • ’ v man had' since apologised. ?.%/ His'..‘Worship the Mayor stated that it was .he who made use of the expression, but, not directly towards . ;Dr Deqk. He made the statement VS'%5 to .thretp of his friends in the Club, and it was overheard by Harry riv- Mleyers, and it was he who repeated it to Dr Deck. Dr Deck: It was not Mr Meyer, as I heard it in the town. Tli© Mayor: I. say it was Harry Meyers. f Mr Foster: Dr Ddck says it was . not Meyers who told him. If I had . been in the same position as Mevers should have told the doctor about it, as I consider that anything detrimental to his profession should be known hr hiimi. The Mavor: It -v aR Harry Meyers who told him. r K Dr Deck: Pardon me, but. I have •y.:k. said it "was not Mr Meyers. The Mayor: It was.