VETERINARY CLUB

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 58, Issue 4167, 1 August 1949, Page 5

VETERINARY CLUB

MR ROBINS LEAVING

RESIGNS WITH REGRET

APPOINTED TO DANNEVIRKE At the July meeting of the Farmers’ Veterinary Club, Ngatea, the resignation of the club’s veterinary surgeon, Mr J. H. Robins, was received with much regret. The chairman, Mr C. W. Schultz, stated that Mr Robins had resigned in order to take up the position of senior veterinary surgeon to the Southern Hawke’s Bay and Bush veterinary region and would reside in Dannevirke. The chairman said that Mr Robins had reached the top of his profession and that it was right and proper for him to accept the higher appointment.

Mr Schultz and all members of the committee of the club expressed much regret at losing the services of Mr Robins and. thanked him for the very good work he and Utt's Robins had done whilst Mr Robins was the club’s surgeon.

In replying Mr Robins stated that he had given the matter a lot of thought and had changed his decision on more than one occasion. He felt that the particular opportunity which had come might not come again though it was with very much regret that he left the district of Ngatea where so much kindness and friendship had been extended to him and so much goodwill had been show T n him by the farmers.

After some years of probationary and post-graduate work it was better for the veterinary surgeon and for the farming community, said Mr Robins, for the surgeon to remain in one locality, for by so doing he could find out more about the special problems of that particular district. In that way he could gain the full confidence of the farming community and his advice would be the more readily taken. When he viewed the position from that angle his conscience pricked him, concluded Mr Robins.