MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
SITTING AT WANGANUI. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WANGANUI, Last Night. The annual Conference of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association opened here'this evening, under the presidency of Dr H. It. Hatherly, of Wanganui. Some forty seven delegates have already ar-
rived,, and others are expected tomorrow. The president's address was 011 the .subject of the relative value of health and education, and was, in the main, an able plea for less "cram" and more persuasion; a material modification of the compulsory provision of the Education Act; a. substantially reduced and more elastic syllabus; and a wider recognition of the wisdom of the advice given by Socrates more than two thousand years ago: "Bring not up your children by compulsion and fear, but by playing and pleasure "
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 February 1913, Page 5
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130MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 February 1913, Page 5
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