GOING THROUGH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1938, Page 4

GOING THROUGH

GOVERNMENT AND HEALTH SCHEME NOT TO BE TURNED ASIDE BY DOCTORS. MR SAVAGE’S DECLARATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. “The legislation is going on the Statute Book,” said the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon M. J. Savage, when commenting in an interview last evening on the statement issued by the New Zealand Branch of the British Medical Association that it was unable to offer any further co-operation in connection with the Government’s health scheme. Mr Savage said that the Government had set itself- the objective of providing a national health scheme, and it could not afford to be turned aside by the opposition of the British Medical Association. In spite of what had been said by the association it was his opinion that the doctors would be behind the scheme when the legislation was enacted. “What would happen if a stand like this were taken by the waterside workers, for instance, against a proposal of national importance?” Mr Savage asked. “If the British Medical Association withholds its co-operation when the legislation comes into force, the Government will have to consider taking other steps.”