FRIENDLY SOCIETIES AND MEDICOS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 20 June 1907, Page 3

FRIENDLY SOCIETIES AND MEDICOS

A CONFERENCE. Per Press Association. Wellington, June 10. Delegates from the various friendly societies in the colony met representative medical men in Wellington to consider various matters. It was decided that a conference be held between a committee from the friendly societies and a committee from divisions of the New Zealand branch of the Medical Association to consider the question of fee«; that in the event of disagreement between a society or branch and its medical officer, or between a lodge and the Medical Association, the matter be submitted to a committee drawn from the local division of the New Zealand branch of the Medical Association and the branch concerned; if ihe committee fail to agree the matter to be submitted to arbitrators, one to be appointed by each party: that in the event of a candidate being passed by a medical officer, and such candidate bring initiated, the quarterly medicinal fee of the member to be paid to the medical officer examining such candidate, but in case he is reputed the candidate's examination fee to be five shillings. The conference could not endorse the ; suggestion that no person paying inL come tax .should be entitled to lodge benefits.

It \v;is also decided thai the widowed mother of a single member should be entitled to medieal attendance, providing she is dependent on such member. These resolutions were only agreed to tentatively on the part of ihe "doctors, I who made it eleai that they had not full power to act. for Ihe whole of the medical profession engaged in lodge work.