Doctors On
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Strike
All Cook Islands doctors in Rarotonga went on strike on January 24 after delivering an ultimatum to the Government demanding increases in salaries retrospective to January, 1964.
The doctors had had consulta tions with the head of the public service in mid-January and had agreed to await a salaries re assessment.
The Premier, Mr. Albert Henry, said in a radio broadcast that the Government would not be dictated to and the doctors must return to work by 9 a.m. on January 25 and their griev ances would be investigated.
The Premier ordered all outer island doctors to remain at their posts and requested the High Commissioner to inform the New Zealand Government and seek medical personnel to run the Cooks’ hospital services for the duration of the emergency. — W. H. Percival.