COLLEGE OF SURGEONS
NEW ZEALAND DIVISION
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, December 12.
A review of the progress' made by the Royal Australasian /College of Surgeons in the- past year was given by Sir Louis Barnett, chairman of the New Zealand division of the college, at the annual business meeting which brought to a dose the annual conference of. the division. Sir Louis said fellows of the college now numbered 618, including 127 New Zealand surgeons. The college building at Melbourne had been opened with full ceremony at the annual meeting in March by the president of the Royal College of Surgeons, England, and' was now fulfilling its useful function as headquarters. The New Zealand fellows had decided to make a gift of a piece of furniture, and a quantity of puriri timber had been sent to Melbourne to be made into a library table bearing an appropriate inscription. Two or three New Zealand trees were also to be sent for planting in the college garden. The next annual meeting of the college as a whole would be held at Sydney from March 18 to 21, and would be opened by Lord Hore-Ruthven, Governor-General-designate of the Commonwealth. The succeeding annual meeting of the college, in January, 1937, would be held at Auckland.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 143, 13 December 1935, Page 16
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