Ye Ken Mon!

NZ Truth, Issue 1210, 7 February 1929, Page 6

Ye Ken Mon!

""THE thinning silver! grey hair at his 1 temples lends a further dignity to him. Ye -ken at a glance that he hails fra Scotland for the broad musical dialect of his forefathers trips merrily from tongue. Meet him; Dr. John Thomson, of Wellington, a medico of the old school whose quiet and unostentatious ministration to the sick and ailing' has made him beloved by all. . Ultra-conservative this aristocratic old gentleman as a lodge doctor m the capital city carries ,on his work with a quiet thoroughness born of long and varied experience. A fine, upstanding man still, Dr. Thomson was, m his younger days, an athlete of note, and iC the birds would only whisper — for certainly he will not — what* a wonderful tale could be unfolded of his pilgrirmige o'er the earth m various official and private positions as a man. of medicines. In the slums of large cities he has toiled arduously and long, and if he did not "pile up riches on earth," this one of Nature's gentlemen has had a satisfying reward m the love of his patients. He won't tell you about it, but the doctor has seen active service during: two wars and carries a personal souvenir as a result. What a pity that such a wealth of anecdote arid story should remain hidden behind his impenetrable wall of reserve!'