VETERINARY ASSOCIATIONS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 16, 14 October 1907, Page 2

VETERINARY ASSOCIATIONS.

THE TRIALS OF A COW DOCTOR . The Wairarapi Veterinary Association wont but. of tbo business four months ago owing to lack of suppoit, caused possibly through an insufficiency of farm population Its liabilities were than about £145, and it was do r cided to circularise members in order that this amount could bo wiped out ( At a meeting of the guarantors of the Association last week a statement was submitted showing that the debt had been reduced to something like £100, and it was resolved to further circularise procrastmatory mombeis Tho failure of tho Wairarapa Association to keep going is not a single e-samplo (writes our correspondent) There wore formerly associations, in l'almerston North and Hawko's Bayy and both these have gono by the board In a great measure tho trouble was caused owing to the inadequacy of the fees paid to .the veterinarians, who,had to go through a trer mendous amount of travelling and hear the cost of a big stable and a motor-ojele The veterinarians in soino cases had a vory busy oxistenoo; so much so', that for somo time they were quite unfamiliar with tho wallpaper of their own homes Tho ohingo to a soono of desperate activity from the quiet, orderly, methodical routino of a Go\ eminent position (formerly thoy were all Govornmont vots ) was liko a nightmare to tho physioians, and'they thinned visibly. _ It is a rough exponenco whon a professional man is expected to attend to a big list, peiform operations, and scorch through the cormtry night and day liko an unquiet spirit striving to establish a record before tho Day of Judg- ' mpnt But theso men tackled tho business in I style, and it was not thoir fault that tho scheme was not a success ' '