ENTRY TO NEW ZEALAND

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 96, 20 October 1937, Page 14

ENTRY TO NEW ZEALAND

DOCTORS AND DENTISTS (Special to the "Evening Post.") PALMERSTON N., This Day: The Director-General of Health, Dr. M. H. Watt, has forwarded to the Palmerston North Chamber of Commence a reply as to the reciprocal arrangements existing between New Zealand and other countries regarding the medical and dental profession. He states that reciprocity exists, as far as the medical profession is concerned, between New Zealand, Great Britain, Australia, and South Africa. It was true that a number of German-Jewish doctors had ,been registered in New Zealand during the last two or three 1 years, but they were all required to take an additional course either fn Great Britain or New Zealand. The concession had been extended to tljem on account' of the position in Germany. Negotiations were in train in regard to graduates from certain universities in India. The Dentists' Act only came into force on June 1 last, and under it the registration of dentists had boen placed in the hands of the New Zealand Dental Council. It would be for the council to determine with which countries and under what conditions New Zealand should enter into reciprocal arrangements. Previously in the registration of overseas dentists, the registrar had accepted the guidance of the Senate of the New Zealand University which decided each case on its merits.