O. And G. Target Of £l00,000 In Sight

Northern Advocate, 7 December 1946, Page 4

O. And G. Target Of £loo,ooo In Sight

(Special) AUCKLAND, This Day. Over £BO.OOO is in hand to endow a professional chair at the proposed new post-graduate training school in obstetrics and gynaecology at Auckland, and the goal of £ 100.000 is now assured.

The chairman of the Auckland busiI nessmen’s committee which sponsored [ the campaign (Mr Percy Shaw) said [this last night at a reception given by I the council of the Auckland University College to the noted British obstetrician, Sir William Fletcher Shaw. Auckland, he said, had subscribed £BO,OOO and with the appeal on a national basis the object of £IOO,OOO was well in sight. Sir William Fletcher Shaw emphasised the national aspect of the proposed school. NATIONAL BASIS Its functions should not be limited by the boundaries of Auckland. If the hospital were to assume its expected role it should be available for anyone with particular problems that it could meet. The teaching side must, therefore, be on a national basis, as well as the funds that were being raised for a professorial chair. Obstetrics and gynaecology were one indivisible subject' and a lot of able New Zealanders went to Britain and spent two or three years in becoming specialists in this branch. They could not be expected to return to the Dominion unless there was a job for them, but outside Dunedin—and now Auckland—there had been nothing in the country for them to come back to. The Auckland scheme set a lead which he was sure would be followed by other centres. *