MEDICAL SCHOOL

Evening Star, Issue 22209, 11 December 1935, Page 18

MEDICAL SCHOOL

GREAT CHANGES IN STAFF RETIREMENT OF SENIOR MEMBERS The coming year will bring very great changes in the senior personnel of the Otago Medical School. In liis annual report, the director of the schodl advised the University Council that Dr Newlands and Dr North will be retiring from the hospital staff under the age limit, the incidence of which will also affect Dr Williams, while the council must face immediately the question as to how the control of the school was to be carried on in the future. Dr de Monchaux returned after his trip to Europe, having obtained valuable experience in the different centres where radio-therapy was practised, and the school felt that his department would benefit materially by the observations ho made during his absence. Mr Gordon Bell returned during the year after his six months’ trip, and had since been carrying out his duties as usual. In the latter part of the year Mr White left for a trip to England, and had not yet returned. i In spite of the partial restoration of the cuts in salaries, the dean said he had again to express his regret that the council had not seen its way to make the remuneration of its professors something near the rate paid for men in similar positions in other centres." The loyalty to the school which had been shown by the staff as a whole was beyond all praise, and the smooth working and the satisfactory educational results reflected the very highest credit on their efforts. He thought_ that the council might well express its thanks to them for the manner in which they had done their work. As on previous occasions ho expressed his personal indebtedness to Dr Hcrcus for his valuable co-operation and help in the work of the deans’ department.