B.M.A. BIENNIAL CONFERENCE

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26026, 1 February 1950, Page 3

B.M.A. BIENNIAL CONFERENCE

ORATION FOR DOCTORS KILLED IN WARS

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, January 31. The first memorial oration honouring New Zealand doctors who died in the two World Wars will be a feature of the British Medical Association’s biennial Dominion conference which will begin in Wellington on February 13. It will be delivered by Mr A. E. Porritt, C.8.E., one of New Zealand’s most famous surgeons, who is visiting the Dominion from England. The idea of an oration at each future conference was proposed last year when a national memorial plaque to doctors was unveiled in Wellington. Mr Porritt’s oration will be given at the National Art Gallery on the evening of February 15. The conference will be opened by the Prime Minister (Mr Holland), and the first day’s programme will include an address on medical standards by Professor R. S. Aitken, Vice-Chancel-lor of Otago University; and an inaugural address by the president-elect "of the association, Dr. E. H. M. Luke, C.M.G., of Wellington, who will be inducted by the present 'office-holder, Mr D. S. Wylie, C.M.G., C.8.E., of Tauranga. On the morning and afternoon of February 15 the conference will hear papers on clinical subjects. Further papers will be read on the morning of February 18, and the rest of the day-will be given to social and sporting activities.

The conference will end on February 17 with a discussion of the papers. Between 150 and 200 doctors from outside Wellington are expected to attend the conference in addition to about 180 local doctors.