NOTED SURGEON

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 123, 22 February 1928, Page 10

NOTED SURGEON

ARRIVAL AT AUCKLAND Dominion Special Service. Auckland, February 21. At tiie invitation ol the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association there arrived by the Ulimaroa from Sydney to-day, Air.' V. Bonney, one oi the most noted gynaecological and obstetric surgeons m the world. Air. Bonney has come as a British delegate to the British Aleihcal Association Conference, which will open in Hamilton on Thursday. Air. Bonney was especially asked also to be present at the first meeting ol the newly-formed New Zealand Obstetric Society. This is his first visit to New Zealand.

Bcsicies taking part in all discussions at Hamilton, Mr. Bonney will tour New Zealand, lecturing and demonstrating. His itinerary will include a visit to Taupo, where lie will fish for a few days, Napier, and Dunedin, where he will lecture’ and demonstrate to students at the Otago University College at the opening of the new medical school on March 7. Mr. Bonney’s tour will include'a trip to the Southern Lakes and Mount Cook. He will go to Timaru ami then on to Christchurch, where he will speak and give medical demonstrations for two davs. He will stay in Wellington lecturing, and then he will travel to Palmerston North and Wanganui Air. Bonnev will arrive back m Auckland on March 21, and will leave, bv the Aorangi two days later for Sydney He will go to Canberra, where he will be present at the first meeting of the Australian College of Surgeons. Travelling with Mr. Bonney are Ins wife and daughter. The party will tour Australia considerably, and will go to Tasmania, where Mrs. Bonney has relatives. “During the last three years there have been six or seven young New Zealangers who have been through my hospitals in London,” said Air. Bonney, “and thev have all done we 1. Most of them went through the Chelsea Hospital for Women, the Middlesex Hospital, and the Freemasons’ Hospital. The men are Dr. J. K. Davidson, Dr. Reid, Dr. Kendrick, Mr. Bennett, Dr. Tennant, Dr. King, and Dr. Alatlneson. Dr. Davidson, who is on the ship todav, has done exceptionally well, said Mr. Bonnev. The branch of medical science in which Air. Bonney has become most famous is obstetrics. . He says that it is onlv bv specialisation that advances in medical science can be made. He is greatlv interested in the formation of an obstetrical society here Air. Bonnev spoke of the excellent work done bv Sir Truby King, and said that the first man to introduce work such as the New Zealander’s was Dr. Ballantvne, of Edinburgh, who 30 v ears ago wrote a work on the I>Junket subject Unfortunately, he died before he saw the developments winch had been made in that direction.