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DR. MAVIS V. JSANE NEW ZEALAND APPOINTMENT (From a Correspondent) LONDON, Jan. 9. Dr. Mavis V. Zane, who will leave for New Zealand by the Mataroa on January 20, under engagement as school medical officer to the New Zealand Health Department, is Australianborn, her native town being Wellington, New South Wales. She was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Croydon, Sydney, and she entered Sydney University and graduated M. 8., Ch.M., in 1918. After holding resident appointments in Sydney, Dr. Zane came to England in 1921, when she was appointed to the position of resident medical officer of the Bridgwater Hospital, Somerset. After six months there she took up an appointment as Assistant Pathologist at the Beck Laboratory, Swansea General Hospital, where she remained for two years, and then she went back to Australia as medical inspector of schools, Department of Education, Adelaide. Within three years. Dr. Zane was back again in the Old Country, and she went to the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, for study. She there obtained the L.M. Diploma. In 1928 she_ was appointed medical Inspector of ‘girls’ schools, Ministry of Education, Cairo, Egypt, where ten years were spent. Apart from her work, her chief interests are connected with travel and peoples. One of her recreations is swimming.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20721, 3 February 1939, Page 5
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