MEDICAL CONFERENCE.

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17606, 10 January 1929, Page 8

MEDICAL CONFERENCE.

TO BE HELD IN WELLINGTON. The annual conference of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association will be held in Wellington on the 19tli of next month, and the meetings will extend over four days.. His Excellency the GovernorGeneral will open the conference. Mr Sampson Handley, the eminent surgeon, and a leading authority on the surgical treatment of cancer, will attend the meeting as the representative of the British Medical Association and of the British Empire Research Fund. Mr Handley will open the discussion on cancer, and will be followed by Dr E. F. D’Ath (Sydney) and Dr. Douglas Thomas (Melbourne). In the evening there will be a civic reception in the Town Hall, after which the incoming president (Dr. J. S. Elliott) will be inducted and wall deliver his presidential address. On the following day addresses cn various medical questions will be delivered, including one by Sir James W. Barrett (Melbourne). In the afternoon there will lie a reception at Parliament Buildings (Department of Health), and in the evening a reception at Government House.

Next day a number of papers by Australian and New Zealand medical men will be read, and the conference will be concluded by a ball given by the President and Mrs Elliott. In addition to the visitors from Australia, it is expected that there will be a large attendance of medical men from all parts of the Dominion.