DISMISSED DOCTOR

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20281, 25 August 1937, Page 2

DISMISSED DOCTOR

WANTED BY ISLANDERS DEATH LATER IN HOSPITAL (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday An application by way of an appeal to the Supreme Court against the decision of the Medical Council of New Zealand not to place the name of Dr. Kenneth Entwisle Bury on the register of medical practitioners In the Dominion was withdrawn In the Supreme Court because of the death of Dr. Bury In the Christchurch Publio Hospital on August 12 after he had been found unconscious In a cabin on the steamer express Maori. Dr. Bury was dismissed from the position of resident medloal offloer In the Chatham Islands and 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 him retained, the natives sending a petition to the Governor-General, Viscount Galway. “ Unsatisfactory Conduct ” Dr. Bury, who had been practising In London since 1920, arrived in Wellington in 1936 and was appointed by the North Canterbury Hospital Board to the position in the Chatham Islands. He was granted a provisional certificate pf registration for three months, at the expiry of which it was renewed for a further three months. Dr. Bury boarded the steamer Tees at the Chathams suddenly, and when the vessel was under way his request that he should be put ashore was refused, and he was taken to Lyttelton. The agent of the North Canterbury Hospital Board telegraphed for a successor and one was sent, but Dr. Bury returned by the steamer’s next trip. The board suspended Dr. Bury on Maroh 11 and dismissed him by telegram on March 30 because “ reports disolosed conduct of a very unsatisfactory nature.” The Medical Council cancelled Dr. Bury’s provisional certificate and refused to place him on the New Zealand register.