LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 March 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Medical Benefits. Questions relating to social security medical benefits were discussed at a meeting of the Wellington branch of the British Medical Association this week. A statement issued subsequently said that reports showed that singularly few practitioners throughout the country had accepted the social security contract for the general practitioner service. This, it was stressed, was the result not only of primary reasons of principle, loyalty to the association and to the colleagues overseas, but' also of realisation of the practical impossibility of undertaking such service at the present, caused by the depletion in the ranks of the profession through the needs of the armed forces.

Chinese Junk Visits Islands. The Chinese junk “Cheng Ho," owned by the American millionairess, Mrs Anne Archbold, was the cause of some conjecture when it arrived at Rarotonga this month, wrote the Rarotonga correspondent of the United Press Association on February 25. The strange craft appeared in the early morning and the watching crowd at Avarua were, full of wonderment as the oriental ship sailed slowly to the anchorage. However, the vessel was quickly identified by an Administration official. Mrs Anne Archbold, who is making a tour of the Pacific islands, was keenly interested in the. native life of Rarotonga and after a few days’ sojourn departed for Tahiti en route to the United States. As can well be imagined, the vessel was crowded with visitors during its stay, as it is the first of its kind ever known to visit the shores of Rarotonga.