DUNDAS MACKENZIE CASE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 30 March 1925, Page 7

DUNDAS MACKENZIE CASE.

JUDGE GIVES DEiCIISION

NAME TO RE REMOVED

FROM MEDICAL REGISTER

(by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, March 30.

Judge Herdiman has delivered his judgment in the Diindas Mackenzie eai~e, and decided that Mackenzie's name should be removed from the medical register of New Zealand. He fixed two years as the time in which he may apply for re-registration Counsel for Lundasi Mackenzie intimated his intention of lodging an appeal. , TT , In the conr.se’ of his judgment, His ■ Honor oaid the judge drew an inference that Dun das Mackenzie had no honest belief , in the usefulness and reliability of the system that he practised. If a practitioner in pracitiso of his profession adopted and used a system in which, he had no belief, then he l accepted regard for service- 1 which he must belieye to be of no value. If he led the public to believe that the .system in which he had no faith can detect disease and could, be use- as a check or a cure for a disease, then he was not acting honestly and in good faith and brought himself within the words of the statute and guilty of ‘‘infamous. conduct in a. professional respect.” Tt was not enough for him to say he believed in the system; that bare statement. • standing alone, would not iustify him when facts were, against him, and. when those u,pon whom the onus rests have shown, that his acts and conduct had set at definite prin'••iples professional honor and credit. Tn these, proceedings that. onus. h.ad been discharged and the judge found himself obliged, to come to the conclusion. +ih,at the charge against Dunda «-• Mackenzie wa.s. proved. Aocordinoilv he ordered the name to be removed from* the medical register.