VETERINARY SURGEONS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19316, 31 October 1924, Page 5

VETERINARY SURGEONS.

PROVISION FOR. REGISTRATION. (Feoji Onn Own Corw.spondesit.l WELLINGTON, October 29. A Bill providing for the registration of veterinary surgeons was among the eight Bills introduced in the House to-night by Governor-General's message. It provides for the appointment of a board, and stipulates the qualifications of applicants for registration. An applicant is entitled to be registered if he is a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. London, or a graduate in veterinary medicine and surgery, or the holder of a veterinary dioloma of any veterinary school or other institution (not being the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons), by the statutes or rules of which-a course of not less than tour years' study of the appropriate subjects is required before a veterinary degree or diploma, as the case may be, can be conferred, and which, is recognised by the Government of the country in which it is established and by the board as a proper and efficient teaching institution; or net being qualified to be registered as above, provided he was employed or was practising as a veterinary surgeon in New Zealand at, the date of the commencement of the Act, and that he is a graduate in veterinary medicine and surgery, or the holder of a veterinary diploma of a veterinary school or other institution, by the statutes or rules of which a course of three years' study of Uie appropriate subjects is required before a veterinary degree or diploma, as the case may be, can be conferred and which is recognised by the Government of the country in which it is established, and by the board as an efficient teaching institution.