Alfred Norman SLATER   
MB ChB (NZ), FRCS (Edin), FFARACS, FFARCS (Eng)
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Born Dunedin 13/11/1900    Died Wellington 5/12/1975

Educated at Otago Boys' High School, Otago University

MB ChB (NZ) 1923, FRCS (Edin) 1933, FFARACS 1952 (foundation fellow), FFARCS (Eng) 1953

HS, Wellington Hospital 1923 - 1924
Locum GP, New Plymouth 1925
General Practice in Otaki 1926 - 1928
General Practice in Island Bay 1928 - 1939

Visiting Anaesthetist, Wellington Hospital 1930 - 1939
WW2 service in Egypt and Greece; POW 1942 - 1943

Post-war, restricted his practice to anaesthesia
Senior Visiting Anaesthestist, Wellington Hospital 1944 - 1962, and he was
Director of Anaesthesia from 1953 - 1961

First NZ Board Member, Faculty of Anaesthetists, RACS 1952 - 1955
President, NZ Society of Anaesthetists 1955 - 1957
Life Member, NZ Society of Anaesthetists 1969

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Obituary: NZMJ 1976 83:90, 83:128

photograph courtesy
NZ Medical Journal