VETERINARY SCHOOL
Committee’s View Disputed (New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN, January 25. The belief that the Universities Inquiry Committee had taken “an extremely narrow view” in recommending that the development of a veterinary college in New Zealand should be delayed was expressed yesterday by Sir Charles Hercus, a former dean of the Otago Medical School. He said the committee, composed of a lawyer, an economist and an industrial scientist, could not be expected to understand the biological requirements of New Zealand and its great farming industry. “We are unique In the world in not having a veterinary school when 95 per cent, of our production is of animal origin,” he said.
“Nobody without a training in the life sciences could possibly be expected to know what New Zealand’s requirements are in this field. It would have been better for the committee not to have commented at all on this .question.” Even countries like the Philippines had veterinary colleges, Sir Charles Hercus said, and it was ridiculous for New Zealand to be going “cap in hand” to Australia for veterinary training, particularly when such splendid facilities were available for training veterinarians at the medical school and the former R.N.Z.A.F. station at Taieri.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29112, 26 January 1960, Page 8
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