CIVIC FUNCTION (excerpt)
Dr Baird also paid tribute to the Matron, Sisters, Nurses and all associated with the Institution for their help. There was no class of the community more deserving than the nurses for appreciation by the people. Their leisure at busy times was encroached on and the service readily given. He bespoke a kindly welcome to his successor, Dr Hopkins, who had arrived that evening. Dr Hopkins graduated at Otago, and had six years in English hospitals. He spent three years at Huddersfield when the overlooking surgeons said they had no hesitation in allowing Dr Hopkins to perform the most difficult operations. No doubt the Doctor would succeed here. He was. a native of Canterbury, which was the next best thing to being a West Coaster. -Hokitika Guardian, 23/4/1930.
OBITUARY
Dr. Allan Hopkins
The death occurred at Hokitika last week of Dr. Allan Hopkins, formerly of Hamilton, in his thirty-third year. Dr. Hopkins was born in Christchurch. He was for several years in charge of the Royal Infirmary, Huddersfield. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh.
Dr. Hopkins was in practice in Hamilton for a year, and a year ago he removed to Hokitika, where he was superintendent of the Westland Hospital, and was in private practice. During an epidemic of diphtheria Dr. Hopkins contracted the disease, and the illness proved fatal. He is survived by his wife and one to whom much sympathy will be extended. -Dominion, 14/4/1931.
Hokitika Cemetery.
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