CANCER CAMPAIGN

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 107, 2 November 1938, Page 10

CANCER CAMPAIGN

BIG CONFERENCE

WELLINGTON NEXT

FEBRUARY

Delegates from Australia and New Zealand will hold the first AustraliaNew Zealand Cancer Conference in Wellington between February 15 and 18 next year.. For the last nine years an annual conference of those interested in the conquest of cancer has been held in one of the principal cities of Australia, under the auspices of the Commonwealth Government, which suggested that New Zealand should take a part in the organising of them. The .proposal found willing acceptance in the Dominion, which has always been represented at the Australian gatherings, and the coming conference will be conducted by the New Zealand branch of the British Empire Cancer Campaign Society, under the auspices and with the co-operation of the New Zealand Government.

Sir James Elliott, president of the New Zealand branch of the British Empire Cancer Campaign Society, will preside over the conference here in February, and the delegates will be doctors actively interested in cancer, and laymen associated with the administration of public health or the fight against cancer. One of the most prominent delegates will be Dr. F. A. Maguire, a leading Sydney surgeon, who is especially interested in cancer. He is a well-known public speaker, and while in Wellington he will deliver a public address on cancer.

The Commonwealth Government will be represented at the conference by the Director-General of Health (Dr. J. H. L. Cumpston, C.M.G.), his secretary, Dr. M. J. Holmes, who has been secretary of all the Australian cancer conferences, and Dr. C. E. Eddy, who is in charge of the Commonwealth Radium Department at the Melbourne University.

Other Australian institutions which will send delegates to the conference are the University of Sydney Cancer Research Committee, the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria, the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and the Medical Journal of Australia.

"Already through the contact between" Australia and New Zealand there has been a great advance in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer," said Mr. R. Darroch, secretary of the New Zealand branch of the British Empire Cancer Campaign Society today. "It is reasonable to expect still greater advances with the closer cooperation of the two self-governing Dominions, which will be brought together very closely for the first time at the conference in Wellington in February."