HOSPITAL REGISTRARS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 995, 11 June 1930, Page 16

HOSPITAL REGISTRARS

DRS. AXFORD AND HOLDGATE APPOINTED ADDITIONS TO STAFF The position of surgical and medical registrars on the Auckland Hospital staff were filled by the board yesterday by the appointments of Dr. Mori'is Axford and Dr. Keith H. Holdgate respectively. There were seven and six applicants respectively for the vacancies.

An Auckland Grammar School boy, Dr. Morris Axford gained a university scholarship which took him to the Otago Medical School. He took his M.B. Ch.B. degree in 1924, and was awarded the Christie medal in surgical anatomy, and the Batchelor medal in midwifery and gynaecology in the final examinations that year. In five years’ post-graduate work he has held various positions in New Zealand and England. In June, 1929, he secured his degree F.R.C.S. (England). For 18 months Dr. Axford was lecturer and demonstrator in anatomy at the Otago Medical School and has held positions as follow:—House surgeon and house physician, Oamaru Public Hospital; casualty officer, Royal Portsmouth Hospital, England; also house physician and house surgeon in that hospital; resident medical officer. South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital, Plymouth. He took post-graduate courses at the Middlesex Hospital, London, in 1927, and at Guy’s Hospital, London, in 1929. Dr. Holdgate qualified as M. 8., Chß., at the Otago Medical School in 1924 and in the following year held house appointments at the Christchurch Public Hospital. Proceeding to England later, he obtained the degree of M.R.C.P. (London). During the past four years he has held positions in a number of English hospitals, and in addition has attended full-time postgraduate courses at the National Heart Hospital and the Brompton Hospital (diseases of the chest), and a parttime course at the Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, London.