APPEAL COURT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19357, 11 July 1925, Page 15

APPEAL COURT

DUNDAS MACKENZIE CASE. WELLINGTON, July 10. Continuing his argument in the Mackenzie appeal, Air. Myers said blood tests were made by a machine, and he would admit that Mackenzie was wrong in pinning his faith entirely to the machine to the exclusion of other methods. He considered that an under taking by him not to use the machine in future except as a check upon usual clinical methods would be sufficient, and this is what he had been doing since the report of the Hordcr Commission. Mackenzie’s chief mistake was his faith in his own capability which evidently was not as great as he thought. Since he returned from America, doctors in Auckland had been watching to got evidence against him. In the Mackenzie appeal case, Mr. Myers sfciid he would admit in the case of Mrs. Johnston that if his client told her she had cancer he should noi be on the roll, but he was prepared to show that the witness was inecrrcct in her evidence. In Mrs. Hunt's case Mackenzie denied he hail told her she had cancer. She thought he said .so and collapsed, and nothing he could do would avail to alter her belief. She was very nervous and likely to miscon strue what he had staid. Air. Myers concluded his address and the Court adjourned to Monday.