MEDICAL ATTENDANCE ON IMMI. GRANTS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 572, 20 January 1876, Page 3

MEDICAL ATTENDANCE ON IMMI. GRANTS.

Sib,— I obicrre in jour Saturday's issue ;i paragraph com-nenting upon the alleged rensMi why the poor immigrants arriving in Waika'o are left to tlio tendor mercy of providence), and without raadicul uMistanco'in time of sickness and p nl. Your nifonnnnt appears to hire leJ you to behove th it the Government intended affording medical aid, but did not mpply it became the fees a«ked were higher than they felt, them selves justified in p lying. Now, Mr Editor, I h.i\o made paitiLular enquiry into I hit matter, and find tint the fees demanded were thoj" usually ch.uged in private practice, and I oon aider them, moreover, icodeiatc, urn! nit at all exus lye. Besides the department made no offer. I am, therefor.-, left to conclude that the pa'lry ground set up ia only an excuse or subterfuge foraTmding the payment und responsibility altogether. Ido not blumo your informant for sticking up for the depirtmont from which lie, probably, obtains his living, but, I do think, Mr Editor, that tho Government, squandering thousand! of pounds in a variety of useless and imp oduclive waysasit does, ii very much to blame f .r thus inhumanely neglecting and l<\iv ing these unfori unates in a strange c ;untry without providing tlieni with medical assistance for a >lim ted period aficr arrival, in timos of sickness and danger. I know, myself, Sir, 01 good authority of two or three adult jdcnthfl in tins district already, arising out of this inhumanity (I can call it by no other m»me) and if it ha I not been for tho prompt and gratuitous attendance of ono medical gentleman, upon Mr» Houlson, and another woman m their trial, and upon otheri, I feel pretty sure there would hive bei,n more. — I »m, &<;, Scbutatop. Hamilton, January 17th, HS76.

Srn,— l have at present no metns of knowing whether the report giraa in your iisuo of last Saturday, of tho recent proowdings at the Auckland (Presbytery, is correct ; but as that report has obtained publicity, I may be permitted, in •elf-defence, to a^ert and afllr n, that tho statement attributed to tho Royd Mr Neill of Cambridge, in so far at they appear to reflect injuriously against m\ are, in every view misleading and false.— l am, &o, E. Maclaubin, Presbyterian Home Musion Agent for Waikato Wect. Alexandra, Jan. 18'h, 1876. [The report was as it reported to bo extracted from an Auckland paper and is doubtless correctly giren. Truly theso parsons arp a peppery lot. For good itrong abusive epithets commend us to an angry parson ! — Ed. W. T.]