VETERINARY SCIENCE.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12901, 12 February 1906, Page 6

VETERINARY SCIENCE.

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It would appear. sentimsnts expressed by the Premier in. his.-speech at' North- tin Monday vnight,. ihat [the\Government intends to'taice sitae steps rtowards encouraging. the.study of "Peteiinin' this to New- Zealand"' he said., "to | import veterinary snrgepiisjrwiien we wanted itheni---but where to -bee got? fWe did not tram c'jthem^^tiso. If we were to' coJonyv Parliament with i the qnestion." '*''"'§V^f?^-"' : The s-abject- is Mr J. A. Giliutlv Chief ;hasr. had a good deal_to *^in : his annual ; reports fos at A. Wel"'Post"''repjes'enta3i¥e--- .saw.' Mr IGifiartk with' reference ...Tta-Sir' Saddon's JstatHment, with a ySsfir. tijtr obtaining farther tinfermatioEL - Mr.'Gilfuth said he hndUittle' jto add to his ;that: ireteTiitary: instructidii sioaldi;iaL'given ;witlisi the Volony, and thc4. there.- "should, ibe, ar propejr systemrof registration ctf veteirinasians.

The; only place, he said... where.; py&par. .mstaruGtion,«Bnld -convenientlyrbe giTea Vas" ;Vhere the'. Medic J' School is • lo.catei' As far as. cliemisti^,vbotaasy, hisr rS*?*? 3 :^ 'Sfiaty disease; v fer eonierß!edj,'..tEieil itttrtwH:! couta- ; , be" i ,"wheiK .o^aSpig^c«3Sed , -in lower more was rer [quimfi.- Thef University ofcl&w ZeaJaad!. (herlpeiflted ©ng bad now deguffls ia Teieiinary scieace. • AsSed heew^the. financial of ,7?t ei s* 1 * ir y *^®hihgS-could 'i ße 'joieiS?' MrT'Gil-" rjatlfa-said Sie number o£ stridGaEs-woald * Be' , snialE hardly to the Gsago:Unis«isi%- providing 5 Jns3fcru«t<>r, : oc eise-rSfee :fees Jthat be "deßarsed frora taking, up • tt&.prplessioh: Thus a chain or lesfcurev a .Goye?nment subr I wotdd be Teqniredf " Thea: : wottld arfee the question;-of aiSSliatlcn with.' 'tSe :v ltoyal.,College....o£ Tete-rinary. Surgeousj.itc order' that- there i^ht ;: fce-'-free«radei ; aii ■*etesEin«ry degrees;..; ; : ;^^; : : . ; ";. 7 li;f S'-.T;'."'' '.>'.; J -':.'

" Mr Gflnitlif l yl in"tSeepiestfon of registration of yeteriitary surgeons. "What father," he?-asked, ""would! ; ibe prepared_to_ spead' sum '■ [xri' ■ i Science toi^ppti^ectfe : even : a pptjlsory \ to »• "ji .£"fe : :«iS .'■?£■/;'. .- ■- J ; In iftus 1902-S report. M*._Sf&j|i&i <k**L»'i at>f of. rcgjs--He: quotes "tb& case> of an indi- ■ who ,be>e»_ practising? in NewZealand, ;and*fj4iwly-*Mejjsng t&iii he -was. a dulyjqualified College! of '■*' That this confcjmied., ~S/tr &srathf " which .employs the majority of the "veterinary surgeons .who are within its borders, should be practically the only one in. the world which has no law to prevent money being obtained by such false pretences, not to mention .possible and actual damage to valuable stock by such charlatans, seems, to say the least, remarkable." He is certain, that the colony lost by the„£bsence -of' any law of ; .registration,, '.forv a ; has-no •means of satisfying-.h"^fiself , as to the .btjca. ' -fides-: of any..s^caßed'-veterinary surgeon,' I while, if. he employs ~pne- who has aoTight J to iie team and who.maltreats iis. sujimjd, ' ; %ihaß^appaawnilyiS«i^s*te&fc^s- ; -a- --serKWi*'

phase of the question, emphasised by Mr Gilruth, is the- unwillingness of -qualified surgeons to come to New Zealand from England on their learning that there is.no statute prohibiting persons with no qualifications from designating themselves by a title to -which they have no right.