POPULAR PRACTITIONER

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 59, 2 December 1937, Page 8

POPULAR PRACTITIONER

Our Own Correspondent.)

l Farewell to Dr. and Mrs. Coutts

(From

TAKAPAU, Last Night. Dr. J. M. Coutts and Mrs Coutts, who are leaving Takapau this week to take up their residence at Martinborough, were farewelled by a very large asseinblage in the Takapau Public Hall on Tuesday evening. The attendance was representative of the entire district in which Dr. Coutts carried out the practice of his. profession and incimled settlers from Ormondville, Norsewood, Marakeke, Otawhao^ Makaretu and A'sliley Clinton. Mr N. M. Paulsen, who presided, apoiogised for inany who, for various reusoiis, were unabie to attend. The chairman, wiio basod iiis remarks chieily on JJr. and Mrs Coutts, iu their meuheal capacily (Mrs Coutts as masseuse and radioiogiSt), said how sorry they all were to Xose the services ox sucn eapable and able praetitioners, who hau won the conlidcnee of the whole eommanity, and he wished tkeni ali happiness and. prosperity in their new home. fcongs were rendered by Miss E. Pease, Messrs E. G. Collm and N. Tiliey, and recitations were given by Mr Ouncan McMiJlan, all tne items being much appreciated. Dr. l'isher , waipukurau, spoke of the very higli .ippreciation m which Dr. Coutts was neld by his medical colleagues. Mr P. de Stacpoole and Mr J. A. Grant referred respecti,vely to Dr. Coutts 'b association with the Tennis Ciub and the Pootball Club, and eulogi&ed the good work he had done in this connection. Mr J. Caughley spoke of the outslanding services Dr. and Mrs Coutts had rendered to the older sections of the community. \ Mr W. Cuthbertson presente.d Dr. Coutts with an autograph book containing the signatures of all frienda and patients in the district. The phairman, on behalf of the subscribers, presented Dr. Coutts with a wallet holding a substantial eheque, as a tangitfle token of the gbodwill and esteem in which he hnd Mrs Coutts were held, and conveyed to them tne good wishes of all for their future 'prosperity and suecess. Dr. Coutts, in reply, thanked the organisers of the function for giving him the o^pportunity of saying goodbye. He said his work had been lightened by the help and co-operation he had Teceived on. all sides, mentioning in particular Mr and Mrs J. M. McKenna, with whom he was mhch associated in carrying out the practice of his plrofession. After the singing of "Por They. Are Jolly Good Fellows" and "Auld Lang Syne," an adjournment was .made to .the supper-room, where a buffet supper was served.