HOSPITAL SUPERINTENDENT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 155, 26 March 1919, Page 6

HOSPITAL SUPERINTENDENT

DR. RANDALL WOODHOUSE APPOINTED. There were seventeen applications for the position of medical tsuperititendent of the Wellington Hospital, rendered vacant by the retirement of Dr. Barclay (who is to practice privately in Invercargill). The Hospital Commit! ee has considered the merits of the various applicants very carefully, and, "subject to the Minister's consent, has- appointed Dr. Randall Woodhouse to the position, the duties of the office to. be assumed as 6oon as the doctor can make his arrangements to come to Wellington. Dr. Woodhouse is by no means a stranger tq Wellington or the Wellington Hospital. He Joined the medical staff of that institution in 1910, and rose to be senior house-surgeon and actingmedical superintendent, in which position he showed promising administrative powers, which are well remembered by those gentlemen who were members of the board at that time. In August, 1913, lie resigned from the Hospital staff in order to proceed to England to take a post-graduate course in medicine and surgery, and was there when the war broke out. He at once joined up with the medical branch of the British Army, and saw a, good deal of service at Home and at the base hospitals, gaining all and more of the experience which ha journeyed to England for. When in Wellington Dr. Woodhouse was a single man. The position cs.rries with it a salary of J;SO0 (risiner to ,£1000) a year, with free .residence, light and fuel." Dr. Woodhouse is still in England, but it is not thought that any difficulties will be nlnced in his way in leaving for New Zealand as soon as he can arrange his affairs in the Old Country.