SURGEONS’ CONFERENCE
STARTING IN DUNEDIN ON WEDNESDAY NUMEROUS DELEGATES P A. AUCKLAND, Jan. 18. Surgeons from all parts of Australia and New Zealand would attend the 21st annual conference of Royal Australasian College of Surgeons which would begin at Dunedin on Wednesday said the secretary of the conference, Mr H. C. Wheeler of Melbourne, who arrived by flying boat. Mr Wheeler was accompanied by Dr A. W. Hailes, of Melbourne, chief examiner of the college. Mr Wheeler said that the matters to be discussed would be purely scientific. The president was Mr Gordon Bell, of Dunedin. The only public meeting would be the Syme Oration called after the founder of the college. Sir George Syme, which would be given by Sir Hugh Cairns, the noted brain surgeon, on Thursday. The examinations for the fellowship of the college would begin on Thursday. There were already over 170 fellows and further candidates would come forward this year.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26672, 19 January 1948, Page 4
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