FAMOUS DOCTORS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 203, 28 August 1935, Page 9

FAMOUS DOCTORS.

ARRIVAL IN AUCKLAND ■ f EN ROUTE TO MELBOURNE. B.M.A. ANNUAL MEETING. Many famous English medical men -will arrive with their wives in Auckland by the Aorangi next Sunday and will eail the following night on -their way to the annual meeting of the British Medical Association, which, for the first time in its history, is holding its annual conference away from England. Br the Wanganella from Sydney this morning there arrived Dr. R. 11. Fethcrston, of Melbourne, a vice-president of the B.M.A. and a past-president of the Victorian branch. In the years of the Great War Dr. Fethcrston was head of the medical services of Australia, with the rank of major-general He visited every front from Gallipoli to Palestine and France. He is now practising privately in Melbourne. Dr. Fetherston, who is staying at the Oram! Hotel with his daughter, Miss E. M. Fetherston, has arrived in Auckland as the representative of the Victorian branch of the B.M.A. to extend an official advance welcome to the 200 men and women who will arrive here on Sunday. He said it was anticipated in Melbourne that the English doctors would be interested in Australian fauna and it was his job to arrange all sorts of trips for them. As soon as he found out just what they wanted to see he would cable or radio Melbourne so that arrangements could be made. j

Included in a long list of specialists find famous doctors who arc in the party which will arrive on Sunday arc: —

T)r. "Watson Smitß", president of the 8.M.A.; Dr. G. C. Anderson, medical secretary; Dr. Ferris Scott, business secretary; Dr. E. K. Le Fleming, chairman of the council; Dr. H. S. Souttar, chairman of the representative body of the 8.M.A.; Dr. N. Bishop Harman, Treasurer; Dr. A. Guy Dain. deputychairman of the representative body and chairman of the Insurance Acts Committee; Sir E. Coey Bigger, chairman of the Irish Public Health Council; Sir Henry Gouvain. medical superintendent of 'the Lord Mayor Treloar's crippled children's movement; Sir Ewen Maclean, professor of diseases of ■women at the Welsh National School. Cardiff; Sir Stewart Purves, consulting physician to Westminster Hospital; Sir William Wilcox, medical adviser to the Homo Office. Several women doctors are included in the party..

It was hoped that the B.M.A. conference could have been held in Melbourne last year, at the time of the centenary celebrations, but that could not be arranged. This year's meeting opens at the Melbourne University on September 9 and is expected to last a week.

When Dr. Fetherston, the Victorian representative, arrived by the Wanganella this morning he was met by Dr. Walter Gilmour, pathologist to the Auckland Hospital. Dr. Fetherston intends to pay a flying visit to Kotorua before Sunday.