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Schoolboys earning good money with the hoe, thinning
turnips on the Clifton Estate, South Otago, during the
holidays. Photo from Otago Witness, 2.2.1910; prints
available from otagoimages.co.nz.
At the meeting of the University Council yesterday
afternoon, the question of increased opportunities being
afforded to medical students of receiving teaching, more
particularly of a practical nature in relation to the Dunedin
Hospital, was accorded some attention.
The matter was introduced by Dr Church, who said the Hospital
Trustees had just completed a new out-patients' department,
and it would be a good thing if they could get them to
co-operate with the University Council.
In accordance with notice of motion given by him, he had
intended moving - "That the University Council appoint an
honorary lecturer on diseases of children, an honorary
lecturer on diseases of the skin, and an honorary lecturer on
urinary diseases."
He would like to drop out the proposal to appoint a lecturer
on urinary diseases, as they were pretty effectively treated
by lectures on surgery.
They, however, had no authorised lectures on diseases of
children and on diseases of the skin.
It was necessary that the council should have authorised
teachers of these two important branches.
He would now move - "That the council, if necessary,
co-operate with the Hospital Trustees and appoint an honorary
lecturer on diseases of children, and an honorary lecturer on
diseases of the skin."
Mr T. K. Sidey said he would be glad to second the motion,
but he considered that they would very soon have to face the
question of paying for a lecturer.
The council decided that the question of introducing
additional teaching in medicine be referred to the medical
faculty for a report.
• Our correspondent at Wellington gives an illustration of
the imminence of the advent of wireless telegraphy into daily
life.
He says that Mr Thomas Ballinger received yesterday a
wireless message from his sons who are travelling from San
Francisco by the steamer Mariposa.
The message was sent from the tropics.
It was handed in to the steamer's office at 2.10pm on
Saturday last, sent to San Francisco by wireless, transmitted
over the land lines to Vancouver, thence to Doubtless Bay by
the Pacific cable, and was received at the Wellington office
at 10.05am yesterday.
ODT, 8.2.1910.
