“GOOD SERVICE”

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10965, 29 July 1921, Page 3

“GOOD SERVICE”

MEDICAL OFFICER RESIGNS. Dr Randal Wood house, D. 5.0., M.C., has resigned from the staff of the Hospital at Wellington* and at the meeting of the Wellington Hospital Board yesterday it was decided to accept the designation with regret. Dr R. Woodhouse was house surgeon in 1910-1913. He joined the' Expeditionary Force in London in • August, 1914, as lieutenant in the R.A;M.C. He was promoted to the rank of major in 1918. In 1916 he was awarded the M.C. and a bar to the M.C. in 1917, He gained; the D.S.O. in 1918. and was mentioned in dispatches. Dr Woodhouse took up his duties as medical superintendent in J\ily, 1919. The chairman stated that Dr Randall Woodhouse had been a valuable asset on the staff of the hospital, and had gained the confidence of the public, ilis resignation was of course due to purely private reasons, and no one more regretted the step than the speaker. He only hoped that his successor would prove as satisfactory. Several other speakers stressed the good qualities of Dr Woodhouse. "When I applied for my present post,"

said Dr Woodhouse, in replying, "I had no intention of resigning so soon, and I feel that I am apparently ungrateful for the honour which the board conferred on me when they appointed me their medical superintendent. I must plead in excuse that strong private reason© have now arisen which demand. m T present action. T wiah to thank you and the members of the board for the unfailing consideration which has always been shown to me.**