VISITING DOCTORS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22202, 31 August 1935, Page 14

VISITING DOCTORS

LARGE TARTY ON AORANGI ARRIVAL LATE TO-MORROW AUCKLAND ARRANGEMENTS , The latest advice concerning the arrival of the Aorangi, which is bringing a party of 236 medical men and their relatives and friends on their way to the animal meeting of the British Medical Association in Melbourne, is that she will not reach Auckland before 5 o'clock to-morrow afternoon. It will not, therefore, be possible for them to undertake any sight-seeing trips beforo nightfall, fts had been intended. The official group with the party, headed by Dr. S. Watson Smith, of Bournemouth, president of the British Medical Association, will bo entertained at dinner by the executive of the Auckland division of the British Medical Association. All the members of the party are invited to a social gathering to be held .at 8.-'SO p.m. in the University College Hall. The president of the division, Dr. W. Gilmour, will preside and welcome the visitors. Arrangements have also been made for groups of the delegates to be entertained that evening in the homes of local members of the British Medical Association.

Monday will bo fully occupied for the visitors by a, one-day trip by special train to Rotorua, returning in time to rejoin the Aorangi beforo she sails that night for Sydney, included among tho visitors are about 20 women doctors.