DEATH ENDS COURT ACTION

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 187, 25 August 1937, Page 6

DEATH ENDS COURT ACTION

Doctor Who Was Refused N Registration CONDUCT IN CHATHAMS - f {By Telegraph— Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. Aa application by way of appeal to ihe Supteme Gourt against the decision of ihe Medical Council of New Zealand not to plaee the name of Dr. Kennet Entwistla Bury 011 the xegister of medical pxactitioners in, the Doxtunion -was withdrawn in the JSupreme Courfc because of the death of Dr. Bury in. the Christchurch Public Hospital on August 12, after he was Found unconscious in his cabin on the steamer express kfaori. Dr. Bury was dismissed from his position of Resident Medical Officer in ihe "• Chatham Islands, aud his temporary certificate of registration was cancelled. The money necessary to bring the Supreme Court action was provided by the islanders, practically all of whom petitioned to have brm r#jtained, the natives sending a petition to the Governor-General. Dr. Bury, who. had been praetising 5a London since 1920, arrived in Wellington in 1936, and was appointe.d by the North Canterbury Hospital Board to a position ha "Ihe Chatham Islands. He was granted a provisional certificate of registration for three months, at the expiry of which it was xenewed foi; .a fuTther three months. Dr, Bury boar.ded the steamer Tees at the Ghathams suddenly, and, when the boat was under way, his. request that he shonld be put ashore was refused, and he was taken to Lyttelton. The agent of fhe North Canterbury Hospital Board felegraphed for a suc.cessor, and oue was sent, but Dr. Bury returned by the nest boat. The board susended Dr. Bury on March 11, and dismissed Mm by telegram on March 30, because "reports .disclosed conduct of a very unsatisfactory nature." The Medical Council cancelled Dr. Bury's Porvisional certificate and refused to place "hiTu on the New Zealand Register. A £rm of solicitors in Wellington asked the Medical Council for reconsideration of Its decislon on the grounds that%«Dr. Bury had had no ini'ormation .whatever of any charges; that the whole population of the islands appeared to be in his favour, that the agent of the North Canterbury Hospital Board had. not been asked to report, and that the Medical Council •ppeared to have aeted on the ex parte gtatements of two persons. The Medical Council xefused to alter its decisidn.