DOCTORS OF OPTICS.
SPECIALISTS PROSECUTED. (by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, Oct. 14. Mr. Poynton, S.M., gave judgment in the prosecution of • three eyesight specialists, Edward Smith, Conrad F. McWilliams, and Edward O. von Stunner, for having practised a branch of medicine under the title of doctor. The Magistrate said the accused used a sign at their business places stating that each was a Doctor of Optics, the use of the term doctor being permitted only to registered medical practitioners. If optics was a branch either of surgery or medicine an offence had been committed. There was no doubt about the skill of the defendants, who had been many years in practice and were of high standing. He said that optics was not a branch of either surgery or medicine and dismissed the charge, differing from another magistrate who had convicted in a similar case. There was, he added, need for legislation to ensure that only properly qualified persons were allowed to practise as opticians
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 October 1924, Page 5
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