DIRECTOR OF HEALTH
AUSTRALIAN VISITOR SIGHT-SEEING ENJOYED - -■>' ■ • The Director-General of Health of the Australian Commonwealth, Dr. J. H. L. Cumpston, and Mrs. Cumpston, who have Been visiting New Zealand for the past four weeks, came to Auckland from the south on Saturday, and will be staying here until their return to Australia by the Awatea on Wednesday. At the invitation of the New Zealand Government, Dr. Cumpston attended the cancer conference, which concluded in Wellington last Friday. The conference, he said yesterday, had been a very useful one, attended by medical men from all the Zealand centres and by a strong delegation from Australia. Dr. Cumpston has seen more of the Dominion on this occasion than on any previous visit. He spent some time at To Anan and at Queenstown on Lake Wakatipu, also visiting the Homer Tunnel and the Mount Cook Hermitage, from where Mrs. Cumpston and he visited the Tasman Glacier. During a four days' stay at the Chateau they both climbed to the summit of Ruapehu in excellent weather, and were delighted with the magnificence of the view they obtained.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23276, 20 February 1939, Page 10
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