DR VALINTINE

Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1930, Page 7

DR VALINTINE

TRIBUTE TO WORK. WELLINGTON, December 2. The retiring Director-General of Health, Dr. T. H. A. Valintine, and Mrs Valintine were entertained by the staff of the Department of Health, who extended to them best wishes for the future.

In making a presentation of a wallet and a "cneque to Dr Valintine and a purse and a cheque to Mrs Valintine, the Assistant Director-General, Df m. H. Watt, referred to the great work Dr Valintine had done for the public health of the Dominion. To. him was due a great deal of the credit for the development which had taken place. He had been a true pioneer who had the vision to recognise the problems of the future, the knowledge to grapple with them and the will and determination to carry him through. It was a matter for gratification that they were not losing him altogether, as he was taking up the position of consultant in hospital administration and his advice would'be valuable to future officers. On behalf of the field staff, Senior Inspector" F. B. Gardiner also paid a tribute to Dr Valinfine’s work.

In reply, Dr Valintine said he op* predated deeply the references- to bis career. Me littd always endeavoured to do bis duty to the Department, and be gave instances of the fight the Department bad bad for recognition. It had met with hostility from local bodies and individuals all over the country.

Dr Valintine added : “I always made up by mind that on retirement at sixtv-five years I would hand over the burden to my great friend. Dr Watt. He will be a better head than T have been. He 'has greater professional ability than ever I had, and lie is a man of high ideals.” ,