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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 98, 28 April 1919, Page 4

The war has had the effect of opening up fresh avenues of employment for qualified veterinarians. In the course of an address delivered at the University Veterinary College in Melbourne recently, Dr. Woodruff mentioned that South Africa had been asking for the services of Australian veterinary surgeons, and he predicted also that New Zealand, which hitherto bad always gone to Great Britain for veterinary officers, would be compelled in the near future to look to Australia for skilled graduates fn the'art of veterinary surgery. Reference was'mode by Professor Woodruff to the fact that Tasmania was the first State to offer a scholarship tenable at a university in another State. He . expressed the opinion that two veterinary colleges were at present quite sufficient for the needs of the Commonwealth, and suggested that it would be a wiser policy to concentrate the students at two main schools, efficiently equipped, than to persist in- the multiplication- of a number of cheap, inefficient, and badly-equipped schools in various portions of the Commonwealth. Regarding the University Veterinary College, he stated that the school numbers were going up, and the register included the name of one female student. Of the 82 graduates and licentiates from the school 68 had proceeded on active service, and a number of"thorn ivM eMurp& tleeeratioms for B»ll»n$ry *_<( good work..