VETERINARY SURGEONS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1923, Page 7

VETERINARY SURGEONS

FOUR GOVERNMENT -APPOINTMENTS.

In. response to the call for examining veterinary surgeons for work under the New Zealand Department of Agriculture, there were eighteen applicants. The four positions to be filled command a salary of £400 per year, rising to £495, with regulation travelling allowances, half-salary during the voyage out, firstclass passages for single men, and £150 towards the passage money of married men.

The_ applications were considered by the High Commissioner and Mr. Alexander Crabb (Secretary to the Department), and a number of the applicants were personally interviewed, with the result that three have been chosen to fill the positions. The ' fourth post has been filled by an Australian.

The three appointed are: Mr. Dudley Gill (Blandford, Dorset), Mr. C. V. Dayus (Craven Arms, Shropshire), and Mr. Peter M'Gregor (Colchester). Mr. Gill, who is twenty-three, has acted as assistant and locum tenens to veterinary surgeons in various parts of Dorchester, in Huddersfield, and in Bath. He gained practical experience in meat inspection while training at Edinburgh. Last June he sat for the examination in veterinary State medicine, and was successful in obtaining his diploma. Mr. M'Gregor is thirty-five, married, and has one child. He was an assistant in a general practice at Colchester. He has acted as inspector of the diseases of animals for three years in the Police Division of Kenilworth and boutham, Warwickshire.

Mr. Dayus was in private practice ou his own account. He held appointments under the Ministry of Agriculture and the County Council of Shropshire. His family have been veterinary surgeons for three generations. Before leaving England. Mr. Gill was married at the Parish Church, Blandford, to Miss Sybil Dore«n Cherry younger daughter of Mr. Alfred Cherry' who is the youngest son of the late Mr John Cherry (a former resident of the village of Marston St. Lawrence). *By the time Mr. and Mrs. Gill arrive in New Zealand-they left from Liverpool towards the end of September by the Rimutaka—they will be met here by Mr. and Mrs A Cherry, who sailed for e}\/ eaL a, nd by the Tainui. Mr. and Mrs. Cherry ha,ve a son, Mr. H H. Cherry, who is farming at Carterton.