DISPLAY OF HOBBIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 254, 24 September 1935, Page 9

DISPLAY OF HOBBIES.

MEDICAL MEN’S VERSATILITY. Model sailing ships, fisning tackle, sculpture, photographs, oil paintings, water-colours, Turkish rugs, wood carvings, fine needlework, and embroidery, were among the displays at an exhibition of medical men’s bobbies, which was held at tho University of Melbourne, last week. Only two of the exhibitors have hobbies which are directly connected with tlieir profession, says a correspondent. One is an expert in turning and fitting, and bad on display home-made surgical instruments, and the other has made liis own apparatus for gas anaesthesia. A famous surgeon exhibited photographs which have won high awards in the salons of London, Paris, and New York. Others showed oil paintings, water-colours, and sculpture. There were many doctors who are collectors. There were collections on exhibition of antique silver, of rare books, of postage stamps, and of native implements, weapons, and carvings. One doctor finds refuge from the cares of practice by making Turkish rugs, another by inventing a method of making briquettes from slack coal. A wool-growing doctor had a fine collection of Merino fleeces. The most versatile of all doctors exhibiting was one who showed a number of water-colours, a model schooner, a complete flyfisher’s kit, made by himself, and mounted specimens of trout. AVomen doctors were apparently more conventional, because every woman exhibitor showed needlework of some kind, though one bad also a collection of pottery and porcelain.