CANCER RESEARCH
PROGRESS IN DOMINION PRAISE FROM OVERSEAS PA WELLINGTON. Oct. 13. Important moves in the cancer research organisation in New Zealand are at present the subject of negotiations between the New Zealand branch of the British Empire Cancer Campaign Society and the Government. It is proposed that the director of the society’s radiophysics laboratory in Christchurch, Dr G. E. Roth, should be transferred to teaching, and to organising the Government’s routine inspection of radio-active substances and apparatus, while acting as a consultant for the work of the society.
The president. Sir James Elliott, in a statement following the annual meeting of the branch yesterday, said it was estimated that nearly 100,000 X-ray and radium treatments for cancer were carried out each year in New Zealand, both in the hospitals and privately. The society supplied radium and maintained the efficiency of the X-ray machines. The work was under the supervision of the Christchurch laboratory, the director of which, Dr Roth, was due to take study leave in Europe, said Sir James. It was also proposed to invite Dr Read, a retired worker in radiophysics at Mount Vernon Cancer Laboratory, London, to take an appointment in the society’s laboratory, and Mr H. H. Sutton, who was at present on study leave, would shortly be returning to New Zealand. Sir James said the budget for the work at Christchurch for the coming year was £5600, and there were also heavy expenses in connection with the society’s other research laboratory at the Medical School in Dunedin. In addition, there was the proposal by the Auckland division to carry out with its own funds a modified form of research in Auckland.
Reports on the research work of the New Zealand branch had been submitted recently to the International Commission on Cancer in Paris, said Sir James, and they had compared favourably with the work done in other countries, as well as rec'eiving special praise at the meeting of the commission.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27211, 14 October 1949, Page 10
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