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AUCKLAND HOSPITAL MR J. M. CLARK AND DR. C. R. BURNS APPOINTED (VKES9 ASSOCIATION TELEGBAM.I AUCKLAND. March 1. The Auckland Hospital Board tonight made appointments to the two new positions of Director of Surgery and director of Medicine at thp Auckland" Hospital. The appointees are:— Surgery, Mr 'John Maxwell Clarke, M.8., Ch.M. (N.Z.). F.R.C.S. (Eng;), F.R.C.S. (Australasia), of New Plymouth. Medicine —Dr. Charles Ritchie Burns, M.D. (N.Z.), M.R.C.P., of Dunedin. There were eight applications for the surgical post and six for the medical. Both were offered to New Zealand practitioners only. The salaries are £ISOO, rising to £2OOO. The appointments were those recommended by the Select Advisory Committee sitting at Wellington and have been approved by the Health Department. Mr Clarke was Medical Superintendent and surgeon to the New Plymouth Hospital from 1926 to 1930, and since then was consulting surgeon to the hospital. " Dr. Burns, who is temporarily studying in London, has been a consulting nhysician in Dunedin and clinical lecturer at Otago University since 1928. Both had distinguished careers at Otago University and later.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22340, 2 March 1938, Page 4
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