FOREIGN DOCTORS
OTAGO MEDICAL SCHOOL COUNCIL AGAIN DIVIDED MISLEADING ASSURANCE (By Telegraph.—Prass Association) DUNEDIN, Thursday The position of refugee aliens seeking admission to the Otago Medical School and finally to the medical register in New Zealand was again discussed by the council of the University of Otago at a meeting to-day. A marked difference of opinion on the subject was disclosed and a motion by Dr. Fitzgerald, providing for the complete exclusion of aliens from the school after 1940, was defeated by the narrow margin of one vote. Following on that discussion, Mr John Robertson introduced a further motion designed to bring about reconsideration of the five applications already refused, on the grounds that the persons concerned had been led by means of a document handed to them in the High Commissioner’s office in London, alleging that if they could pass the customs and secure the approval of the New Zealand Medical Council they would automatically be entitled to enter the Medical School.
On this aspect of the matter the council was again keenly divided, but in the absence of two members who had been present earlier the motion was carried by eight votes to five, and a committee was set up to reconsider the applications.
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21038, 14 February 1940, Page 2
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