NOTABLE DOCTORS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22193, 21 August 1935, Page 12

NOTABLE DOCTORS

PAETY FROM ENGLAND BRIEF AUCKLAND VISIT ARRIVAL BY THE AORANGI CONFERENCE IN MELBOURNE The main body of delegates from Britain to the annual meeting of the British Medical Association, to be held in Melbourne next month, will arrive at Auckland by the Aorangi on the afternoon of Sunday, September 1. The party numbers 236, of whom 126 are medical men and the remainder wives or relatives and friends travelling with them. Some 300 delegates are expected in Melbourne from Britain, but a number of these are already on their way, and others will travel via Suez. The meeting is the 103 rd in the history of the association. Although not the first to be held outside Britain it is the first to take place in Australia. Among the most notable speakers at it will be Lord Horder, Physician-in-Ordinary to the Prince of Wales and senior physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital; Sir William Willcox, physician to St. Mary's Hospital, London, and the London Fever Hospital; Professor Sydney Smith, regius professor of forensic medicine at Edinburgh University, at present visiting New Zealand; and Sir Henry Gauvain, of ' Alton, Hampshire, the eminent authority on surgical tuberculosis.

In great measure the plans for the entertainment of the party here are included in the official itinerary that has been prepared in London, but members of the Auckland division of the British Medical Association, both as a body and individually, will offer such hospitality as opportunity affords. Sight-seeing 'Crips

Should the Aorangi arrive early enough in the afternoon members-of the party plan to go on sight-seeing trips within easy distance of the city. In the evening they are to be entertained at a social gathering in the hall of the University College by the local division of the British Medical Association. The president of the division, Dr. Walter Gilmour, will preside. Apart from this a number of the visitors will be entertained individually or in small groups by their Auckland colleagues. Monday will be fully occupied with a one-day trip by specisJ train to Rotorifa The party will return in time to rejoin the Aorangi in the evening before she sails for Sydney. Many Outstanding Men The official group with the party consists of Dr. S. Watiion Smith, of Bournemouth, president of the British Medical Association; Dr. G. C. Anderson, of London, medical secretary of the association; Dr. E. Kaye Le Fleming, of Dorset, chairman of the council of the association; Dr. H. S. Souttar, a well-known London surgeon, chairman of the representative body of the association; Dr. H. Guy Dain, of Birmingham, deputy-chairman of the representative body; Dr. N. Bishop Harman, of London, treasurer of the association; and Mr. L. Ferris-Scott, of London, financial secretary and business manager of the asisociation.

Among other outstanding men in the Aorangi party are Sir Comyns Berkeley, of London, the well-known gynaecologist; Professor E. W. Hey Groves, of Bristol, a leading surgeon; Professor Sir Ewen Maclean, of Cardiff; Dr. Z. Mennell, an authority on physio-therapy; Sir James PurvesStewart, of London, a well-known neurologist; and Sir William Willcox and Sir Henry Gauvain, already mentioned. So far as is known at present only about six Auckland medical men will be attending the conference in Melbourne, but a larger number is going from southern centred.