

Intern residence urged
The following report by Dr Falconer, Medical Superintendent of the Dunedin Hospital, will be considered at the next meeting of the Otago Hospital Board: "Without a resident appointment in a modern hospital a medical student’s training is incomplete. Herein lies an essential difference between American and English methods. After passing the final examination, an English student does not obtain his degree until he has spent a further year in residence in a hospital as an intern, where he is given a course of advanced clinical instruction and learns to apply the knowledge he has previously obtained in the clinical years of his medical course. Any errors he may make in diagnosis or in suggested treatment are corrected, and actually aid in his training.
"Following such a training he enters practice after his skill in diagnosis and treatment has been demonstrated — a matter of obvious importance to the public. To my mind no greater present advance could be made in medical training in New Zealand than by carrying out Sir Lindo Ferguson’s idea of instituting a ‘hostel’ for final-year students adjacent to the Dunedin Hospital."
Dunedin’s new Scout HQ
The new headquarters of the Boy Scouts in Rattray street were officially opened last evening. Over 200 visitors were present, including representatives of the Rotary Club and troop committees. The Mayor (Mr H.L. Tapley) addressed those present, and in doing so emphasised the valuable benefit of scoutcraft to the community, and wished Commissioner Meek, his scouters and executive every success in their headquarters. Dr Marshall Macdonald, who has been appointed to represent Otago on the Dominion Council, spoke on the many handicrafts taught to scouts, and emphasised the fact that scouting trained a boy to be loyal to God, to help others and do his best to keep the 10 scout ideals. . Following a humorous "drill down" by the Ocean Beach scouts, the singing of the National Anthem concluded an instructive and enjoyable evening. — ODT, 10.7.1925
Compiled by Peter Dowden