PATHOLOGIST RESIGNS POST ANIMUS ALLEGED

Evening Star, Issue 26087, 29 April 1947, Page 4

PATHOLOGIST RESIGNS POST ANIMUS ALLEGED

(P.A.) AUCKLAND. April 29. ' Reasons prompting the resignation of Dr Wa Iter Gilmour, director of pathology at the Auckland Hospital, were set out in a letter which came before the Hospital Board. Dr Gilmour said he was satisfied that animus had been entertained against him for some time, resulting, be alleged, in a pin-pricking campaign which was thoroughly unjustified. Dr Gilmour cited various matters concerning himself and the administration of his department, stating: “ The result is that I have been placed in a position which is intolerable, and one to which I certainly am not prepared to submit. I. have spent 26 years devoting all my interest to the laboratory and its development to the very high standard it has attained. To end my association with it is a matter which causes me deep regret." Referring at the Hospital Board meeting to the board’s Finance Committee’s view that the matter raised by Dr Gilmour 'did not constitute sufficient reason to justify his resignation, Mr Sehvyii 18. Morris said he did not agree with this view. One of Dr ' Gilmour’s reasons was personal animus, which no one had thought to deny. ’lt would be no use anyone trying to deny it. The senior assistant pathologist, Dr Lindsay F. Brown, has also tendered his resignation, stating that the atmosphere in the laboratory had not been conductive to bis best efforts.