N.Z. DOCTOR’S SUCCESS
Personal Endeavour Rewarded
3 '“The Press" Special Service e WELLINGTON, January 21. s Behind a recent announcement 2 that Dr. Arthur Hackett, a son Jof the Minister of Labour (Mr s Hackett) had qualified as a fellow
_ of the Royal College of Surgeons Jin Edinburgh, is a story of con-
t siderable personal t. Dr. Hackett left school when he was 14 to become an apprentice linotype operator with an Auckland newspaper. He worked hard jat night school and after he had i passed the university entrance ! examination, he was released I from his apprenticeship so that he could go to university. i In his subsequent long and difficult mediCal course, Dr. Hackett has never failed an examination. In his F.R.C.S. primary at Edin- > burgh he topped his class. i Aged 31, he‘married an English i girl last year.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28799, 21 January 1959, Page 3
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