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• ON THE MEDICAL BILL OPPOSITION AMENDMENT. WHY IT WAS WITHDRAWN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. When the House of Representatives met at 10.30 a.m. today, further consideration was giveh to the Social Security Amendment Bill. In the debate on the short title, in the Committee stage, the Leader of the Opposition, Mb Holland, said the Pfime Minister (Mr Fraser) had stated on the previous night that a statement would be welcomed as to why the Opposition had withdrawn its amendment, moved three weeks ago. Mr Holland said the Opposition had carried out its function in fighting certain clauses of the Bill tenaciously, and had succeeded in its fight. Of eight objections made by the Opposition, seven had been sustained by the Government’s amendments. The Minister of Finance (Mr Nash), replying, affirmed that not a word of Mr Holland’s had justified the Withdrawal of the amendment. The Opposition would still vote this Bill out tomorrow if it had the power to do so. additional cost. Good, progress was made with the Bill dating the remainder of the moi-n-Mr. Noi’dmeyer announced that the latest amendments would cost an additional £200,000 over the original estimate, biinging the total estimated cost of the general praptitioher sci’Vice up to £1,400,000 annually. Mr. Fraser gave ah undertaking that the dcverhffieht would go into the auestion di alldwihg doctors access to the Courts for the recoVei-y of fees over and above what was alloWed in the Bill. He undertook to see if a suitable amendment could be brought down in the Legislative Council. Mr. Nordmeyer, answering a question, said Sunday work would be paid for at the same rates as night work. The House was discussing a new Clause 6a when the adjournment was taken at .l.p.m. .. .
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 October 1941, Page 6
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