FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 249, 11 March 1913, Page 3

FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.

axd tiik nniTrsn medical ASSOCIATION C'hristeluirch, Sunday. Matters between the Lyttelton doctors ajxl tlii' friendly societies at that port have not l>eeu working smoothly, and at the commencement of last month the. societies advertised for applications fol the position of doctor, and from eleven applicants Dr. Stewart, of A\ Hospital, was appointed on February "2h. Last Friday an advertisement appeared in the (/iiri'slchurch papers, Witrniiig medical practitioners against applying' for ;;])v appointment advertised for by the friendly societies of Lyltelfon. ami adding that it would be to their advantage to communicate in the (irst instance with t!ie secret arv of the Lritisli Medical Association. ( hristclmrch. A dispute has arisen over the demand by the previous medical ollicers for an increase in fees from l is to -21s from each financial member pel' annum, and accouchcmcnts from >:l lis lid to e:; OS. The societies are willinu- to increase the fees to 21s and CI -is. with the right of private practice and a guaranteed minimum of £.>!)() per annum. One of the medical ollicers interviewed slated that the matter was one for the British .Medical Association, which, he understood, was going to take up'thc (|ue-lion of payment of doctors by the New Zealand friendly societies.