FAILED IN PURPOSE

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20953, 4 November 1939, Page 8

FAILED IN PURPOSE

OBSTETRICAL SCHOLARSHIPS STUDENTS NOT RETURNING REMEDIAL ACTION SUGGESTED (By Telegraph.—Press Association) AUCKLAND, Saturday Under scholarships endowed by the women of New Zealand, eleven New Zealand obstetrical students of outstanding promise have gone abroad for training since 1928, but only one has returned to practise obstetrics arid the treatment of women’s diseases in the Dominion. Three of the latest scholars are still in process of completing their English training, said Dr. Doris Gordon, of Stratford, honorary secretary to the New Zealand Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society, who has returned to New Zealand after twelve months’ absence overseas. She was deputed by the society to interview those New Zealand students who have preferred to remain in England. “The executive is gravely concerned,” she said, “because the scholarships are failing their foundation purpose to bring back to the Dominion doctors highly-trained in all recent advances in women’s disorders and obstetricians thoroughly conversant with all modern methods of pain relief in labour.” Britain Benefits Dr. Gordon added that under the new terms of scholarship, students proceed first to the women’s hospital, in Melbourne, and afterwards to England, where they find their title “New Zealand obstetrical scholar” an open sesame to the most coveted residential posts in England. “The students’ failure to return is akin to the failure of Rhode.?’ scholars to return, with the difference that in this instance the endowment was given by thousands of humble New Zealand women to better the lot of mothers in the Dominion who succeed them. It # appears that the money given is merely being used to provide England with specialists. Two courses of remedial action has presented themselves to the society, said Dr. Gordon. First and most logical was to abolish certain obsolete conditions prevailing in New Zealand, and the second was to make it compulsory for scholarship students to return to New Zealand. ______ The extra trains from Auckland to Wellington at 7.35 p.m. and Wellington to Auckland at 7.40 p.m. will not run after Sunday. JUVENILE HANDICAP or £100; 4 furs. 2 ROYAL CONSORT. 7.9 I J. Forsythe) 1 3 BLACK OUT. 7.10 I—DUSKY MORN. 7.1? 3 Also started: Tea Lord, 8.0; Bombay. 7.9. Six lengths; three legnths. Time, 49 1-64. 1