VETERINARY SURGEONS

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 247, 16 October 1923, Page 7

VETERINARY SURGEONS

FOR AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.

There were eighteen applications for the four positions for examining veterinary surgeons under the Sew Zealand Department of Agriculture The four positions command a salary of £400 per year, rising to £495, with regulation travelling allowances, half-salary during the voyage out, first-class passages for single men. and £150 towards the passage money of married men. The applications were considered by the High Commissioner and Mr. Alexander C'rabb (Secretary to the Department) , and a number of the applicants were personally interviewed, with the result that three have been chosen to fill the positions. The fourth post has been filled by an Australian.

The three appointed are: Mr. Dudley Gill (Blandford, Dorse£), Mr. C. V. Dayus (Craven Arms, Shropshire), and Mr. Peter McGregor (Colchester). Mr. Gill, who is 23, has acted as assistant and locum tenens to veterinary surgeons in various parts of Dorchester, in Hudclersfield, and in Bath. He gained practical experience in meat inspection while training at Edinburgh. Last June he sat for the examination in veterinary State medicine, and was successful in obtaining his diploma.

Mr. McGregor is 35, married, and has one child. He was an assistant in a general practice at Colchester. He has acted as inspector of the diseases of animals for three years in the Police Division of Kenihvorth and Southam, Warwickshire.

Mr. Dayus was in private practice on his own account- He held appointments under the Ministry of Agriculture and the County Council of Shropshire. His family have been veterinary surgeons for three generations.