EMINENT SURGEON.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19177, 7 December 1927, Page 13

EMINENT SURGEON.

TO VISIT NEW ZEALAND

[THE PBESS Special Service.]

WELLINGTON, December 6

Mr Victor Bonney is recognised as the leading authority in Great Britain on the subject of gynecology and obstetrics, and it has now been arranged that he will visit New Zealand in February next, and that while here no will attend the conference of the iNew Zealand branch of the British Medical Association as the specially appointed representative of the parent association in Great Britain. Writing to the local branch, the London secretary says: "The Council of this Association has__ heard with great pleasure that Mx Victor Bonney has been invited to visit New Zealand in connexion with your annual conference at Hamilton. lam sure that Mr Bonney will receive a hearty welcome. This would be due to his great surgical reputation, but we feel sure that lie will be no less welcome as the official representative from the Home Country, and the bearer of our best wishes." After cabling his acceptance or the invitation. Mr Bonney wrote: "Quite apart from the enjoyment I anticipate in seeing your beautiful country, and meeting many New Zealanders, whom I have known in London, I feel that your invitation has a big significance as emphasising the brotherhood which exists between all doctors in the British Empire, whether they are practising in the Homeland or in the Dominions abroad, and it gives me great pleasure to know that my confreres m New Zealand think I can assist in the campaign to improve obstetrics and gynaecology in their country. ' Mr Victor Bonney is the author of "Difficulties and Emergencies of Obstetric Practice," and other recognised authoritative works on gymsoology and obstetrics.