SECOND MEDICAL SCHOOL
♦ STUDENTS' COMMENT ON SUGGESTION . ITHE PRESS Special Service.] DUNEDIN, August 8. Student opinion on the suggestion recently made in Parliament that consideration should be given to the este?lishment of a second medical school in New Zealand is apparently very deiinite. This may be gathered from comment in the "Critic," the official organ of the Otago University Students' Association, which says: . The Director-General of Healjn considers that New Zealand needs pmy 60 to 70 graduates a year, so the expansion of the medical school is unwarranted. The establishment of another medical school in New Zealand, would be merely a means of producing unemployed doctors, besides being a waste of nearly £1,000,000 of public money The time has not come yet !<» two schools in New Zealand, nor win it come for some 100 years at the pre--1 sent rate of increase of the population-
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23094, 9 August 1940, Page 8
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