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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18590, 28 December 1934, Page 12

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500 MEDICAL MEN

DOCTOR ARRIVES IN N.Z

Among tJio arrivals by lire Rangitata from England was Dr. A. B. Sternberg, recently of Berlin, who has come to settle m New Zealand. Through legislation enacted not so very long ago, Dr. Sternberg, in common with about live hundred other medical men, found it necessity- to leave Germany and continue to work in some other country. In conversation with a Dominion representative, Dr. Sternberg said that of the five hundred mentioned about a hundred went to England, some t\vo hundred to Palestine, end the rest to France, Italy and Switzerland. Some of these men were quite distinguished in their profession, and their services should he valuable to any country in which they ultimately settled. Commenting upon the settlement in Palestine of Jewish people from all parts of the world, Dr. Sternberg said that the Zionist movement was progressing satisfactorily, and pictures of the towns which had sprung up as a result of the settlements showed a well-defined spirit of modernism. The towns were well laid out, with architecture of the very latest kind. Referring particularly to the seaport, Haifa, Dr. Sternberg stated that this was a modern town, a good deal of the architecture of the buildings having been designed by Herr Kaufmann, one of Berlin’s most brilliant architects, who had to leave Germany because it had been ascertained that his great-grandfather was a Jew. Speaking of his own experiences when he had to leave Germany, Dr. Sternberg said ho fiund that as ho wished to practise in tho British Eimpire he would have to have a British degree, so he went to Edinburgh in June, 1033, studied hard and gained his degree. This was necessary' despite the fact that he had been sub-chief of the Municipal Hospital for Women’s Diseases in Berlin. It was difficult, for when he first went to England, lie had next to no English at l.is disposal, but now he speaks the language quite freely. .“About a hundred German doctors were studying at Edinburgh, when I was there,” said Dr. {Sternberg. ‘‘lt seems that under a law some 300 years old, provision waA made for taking in students from alien countries. The examinations were very hard, but eminently fair, and I left Edinburgh with a great respect for its people and its degree. As f have said, there were about a hundred up for it with me. How hard it was may be conveyed by the fact that of the total number of Germans who sat for the examination forty-four failed.”

International Promoter.of the Apostleship of the Sea, the Rev. Father J. E. RoeklilT was a through passenger at Auckland on the R.M.S. Maknra, en route from Sydney to Sail Francisco. Mr. B. J. E. Wright, barrister-at-law, Svdney, a son of the late Archbishop Tvright, has arrived at Wellington to snend a holiday with his sister in Hawke’s Bay.