Future Of Veterinary Club Requirements Discussed

Taupo Times, Volume XIV, Issue 66, 24 August 1965, Page 12

Future Of Veterinary Club Requirements Discussed

Future requirements of the Putaruru Veterinary Club provided a subject for conjecture at the club's annual meeting on Thursday night. The club's area reaches from Okoroire to Tirohanga and Pukeatua and includes thousaiuls of acres of newly-devcloped or potential farmland. A second clinic, in addition to that at Putaruru, might be needed for the southern area, possibly at Tokoroa, commented the retiring president, Mr C. K. James, of Whakamaru. Discussion rose from a question concerning expenditure planned on the clinic at Putaruru. A member asked whether it would be better to provide a new clinic at Putaruru now, so that it would not be faced with heavy expenditure in the headquarters town later at a time when a second clinic was needed in the south. Mr James said that extensive alterations and renovations had been under taken at the Putaruru clinic in the past year during the installation of an X-ray machine. It was now intended to protect this asset with a better roof . Building a new clinic would not be warranted. Mr James was asked whether the Putaruru building would be large enough if

it was decided in the future to centralise veterinarians in the Tirau, Putaruru and k part of the Tokoroa country at Putaruru, using radiotelephone links. He replied that the point '* had not been considered beeause of the geographic difficulties experienced in the club's area. Unlike the Morrinsville and Te Awamutu clubs, the Putaruru club jcould not centralise on one ' town. Here the veterinarians were spread over 60 miles, and the dead running through pine forests made it impracticahle to centralise the service. When further development occurred in the Taupo Western Bays area and in the region west of Lake Arapuni the club could need another clinic and a veterinarian to serve the district, Mr James commented.