MEDICAL BILL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1941, Page 4

MEDICAL BILL

MANY LETTERS OF PROTEST. IN RESPONSE TO ADVERTISED' APPEAL. ißy Telegraph-—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, September 29. An advertised appeal by opponents of the Government's medical practitioner service plan for those who agree with them to telegraph or write their protest to their member of Parliament has been productive of results. The Leader of the Opposition, Mr Holland, said today that he had received hundreds of such protests, including a bidnumber by mail today. j It was no new practice, Mr Holland said, for those who felt strongly about contenious legislation to write to members of Parliament and express their grievance, but he had not before known such a volume of response. Mr Kyle, M.P., said that in his experience most of the letters came when .a Bill was under discussion in the House of Representatives, especially when speeches were being broadcast as in recent years. It was a frequent practice in New Zealand for constituents to write to a member but it was rare that advertisements should ask them to do it. “There is a probability of further consideration being given this week to the medical practitioner amendments of the Social Security Act.” the Prime Minister (Mr Fraser) stated in Wellington. when discussing this week’s list of business for the House.