HARDLY A ONE-MAN JOB

Taranaki Daily News, 8 November 1932, Page 13

HARDLY A ONE-MAN JOB

CHEMIST, VET., DR., AND ADVISER

THE DAY’S WORK AT OHURA.

Professional etiquette has no place in the back-blocks when occasions demand prompt and effective measures. Take the case of a qualified chemist and optician who has established his business in Ohura. When a Daily News representative called upon him he was found in his oldest clothes administering to the needs of a valuable cow taken seriously ill in calving. Skilfully, and patiently he carried out the duties, of a practiced vetinerary surgeon, having laboured with his charge most of the previous night as well as the following day. Between whiles he dashed back across country to his shop, where it was to the credit of his customers that they minded not his soiled garments nor the period of waiting his absence had caused them. In conversation with the popular prescriber, it was learned that apart from treating animals it was not uncommon, in the absence of a doctor, for his services to be sought in administering to serious human ailments, even to the setting of fractured limbs and plastering running ulcers. But the day’s work brought problems of a totally different nature into his dispensary. While the journalist lingered a settler stumped in seeking advice as to the framing of his will, and had hardly gone about his affairs when, an Irishman, off back to his emerald isle, unblushingly demanded instruction in preparing his passport. The next caller wanted an opinion relating to the intrinsic value of a piece of quartz, and as the journalist was making his farewells a townswoman came to the door for the latest recipe to make homo brew. There may not be a fortune in store for that chemist, but his presence is certainly appreciated throughout a wide district.