Otago University And Alien Doctors

Northern Advocate, 14 February 1940, Page 3

Otago University And Alien Doctors

[Per Press Association. Copyright ] DUNEDIN, This' Day. The position of refugee aliens seeking admission to the Otago Medical School and finally to the medical register in New Zealand was again discussed by the council of the University of Otago at a meeting yesterday. A marked difference of opinion on the subject was disclosed, and a motion by Dr. Fitzgerald, providing for the complete exclusion of aliens from the school after 1940, was defeated by a narrow margin of one vote. Application to be Reconsidered. Following on that discussion, Mr John Robertson introduced a further motion designed' to bring about reconsideration of the five applications already refused, on the ground that the persons concerned had been led to believe, by means of a document handed to them in the High Commissioner’s Office jn London, that if they could pass the Customs and secure the approval of the New Zealand Medical Council, they would automatically be entitled to enter the Medical School. On this aspect of the matter, the council was again keenly divided, but, in the absence of two members who had been present earlier, the motion was carried by eight votes to five, and a committee was set up to reconsider the applications. BividemS.—The directors of K.D.V. Boxes, Ltd., have declared an interim dividend of 2 per cent, for the six months ended December 31, payable on February 26. This is the first interim payment since 1935. The full year’s distribution last year was 3 per cent., compared with 2| per cent, in the previous year.