APPEAL WITHDRAWN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 201, 25 August 1937, Page 13

APPEAL WITHDRAWN.

DEATH OF DOCTOR. SUPREME COURT ACTION. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. An application by way of an appeal to" the Supreme Court against the decision of the Medical Council of New Zealand not to place the name of Dr. Kenneth Entwistle Bury on the register of medical practitioners in the Dominion was withdrawn in the Supreme Court because of the death of Dr. Bury«in the Christchurch Public Hospital on August 12 after he had been found unconscious in a cabin on the steamer express. Maori.

Dr. Bury was dismissed from the position of resident medical officer in the Chatham Islands, and his temporary certificate of registration was cancelled. The money necessary to bring the Supreme Court action was provided by the islanders, practically all of whom petitioned to have him retained, the natives sending & petition to. the Governor-General, Lord Galway. A firm of solicitors in Wellington asked the Medical Council for the reconsideration of its decision on the grounds that Dr. Bury had had no information whatever of any charges, and the whole population of the islands appeared to be in his favour; that the agent of the North Canterbury Hospital Board had not been asked to report, and that the Medical Council appeared to have acted on- the ex-parte statements of two persons. The Medical Council refused to alter its decision.