SURGEONS HONOURED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18762, 16 July 1924, Page 10

SURGEONS HONOURED.

AN AMERICAN TBI&UTE, AN AUCKLANDER INCLUDED*^ Two New Zealand surgeons and one Australian • surgeon have been asked to accept the Honorary Fellowship of tha American College of Surgeons, an honour 5 greatly valued by reason of the standing of the college and the care with which these fellowships are conferred. The New Zealanders so honoured are Mr. Carriole .Robertson, of Auckland, president of the British Medical Association, and Sir Juindo Ferguson, of Dunedin. Dr. G. A. Byrne, C.B.E.', well-known surgeon of Melbourne, is the Australian recipient. Altogether there are only about 60 men who have been made Honorary Fellows by thjis famous college. Che British recipients numbering only 14. The fellowship has to be personally received, and will be conferred at the convocation to be held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, NewYork, on Ootober 24 next. Mr. Carrick Robertson stated last evening that he proposed leaving for tho United States by the Makura early in August, and would be absent from the Dominion for about" four 6? five months. He hoped while in America to visit the Mayo Clinic .. , It is also announced from Dunedin that Sir Lindo Ferguson will sail for America at the end of the present month. The Minister tor Health, Sir Maui Pomare, has been invited to represent New Zealand at the annual congress oi the American College of Surgeons in New York in October, but has replied regretting his inability to be present.