A NOTED SURGEON.

Otago Witness, Issue 3859, 28 February 1928, Page 77

A NOTED SURGEON.

ARRIVAL OF MR VICTOR BONNEY VISIT TO DUNEDIN PROJECTED. AUCKLAND, February 21. At the invitation of the New Zealand branch .of the British Medical Association there arrived by the Ulimaroa from Sydney to-day Mr Victor Bonney, one of the most noted gynaecological and obstetric surgeons in the world.

Mr Bonney has- come as the British delegate to the British Medical Association Conference, which will be opened at Hamilton to-morrow. He was especially asked also to be present at the first meeting of the newly-formed New Zealand Obstetric Society. This is ais first visit to New Zealand.

Besides taking part in all the discussions at Hamilton, Mr Bonney will tour New Zealand, lecturing and demons'.rating. His itinerary will include a visit to Taupo immediately after the conference, where he will fish for a few days. From there he goes to Napier, and then straight to Dunedin, where he will lecture and demonstrate to the students at Otago University. Mr Bonney’s tour will include a trip to the Southern Lakes and Mount "ook. He will go to Timaru, and then on to Christchurch, where he will speak and give medical demonstrations for two days, lie will stay in Wellington lecturing, and then he will travel to Palmerston North and Wanganui. Mr Bonney will andve back in Auckland on March 24, and will leave by the Aorangi two days later for Sydney. He will go to Canberra, wnere he will be present at the first meeting of the Australian College of Surgeons. Travelling with Mr Bonney are his wife and daughter. The party will tour Australia considerably, and will go to Tasmania, where Mrs Bonney has relatives. During the last three years there have been six or seven young New Zealanders who have been through my hospitals in London,” said Mr Bonney, ” and they have all done well. Most of them went through the Chelsea Hospital for Women, the Middlesex Hospital, and the Freemasons’ Hospital. The men are

Dr J. K. Davidson. Dr Reid, Dr Kendrick, Mr Bennett, Dr Tennant, Dr King, and Dr Mathieson. Dr Davidson, who is on the ship to-day, has done exceptionally well,” he added. The branch of medical science in which Mr Bonney has become most famous is obstetrics. He says that it is only by specialisation that advances in medical science can be made. He is greatly interested in the formation of an obstetrical society here. Mr Bonney spoke of the excellent work done by Sir Truby King, and said that the first man .o introduce work such as the New Zealander was Dr Ballantyne, of Edinburgh, who 30 years ago wrote a work ou the I'lunket subject. Unfortunately, he died before he saw the developments which had been made in that direction.