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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Dr. Gray Hassell

Dr. Gray Hassell, M.D., Medical Superintendent of Mt. View and Porirua Lunatic Asylums, was born in Oamaru, Otago, in 1860. In 1873 he went to Scotland and completed his studies, begun in New Zealand, in Aberdeen, graduating as an M.B.C.M., page 358 and taking his M.D. degree. Dr. Hassell returned to New Zealand in 1882, and was resident surgeon in Timaru Hospital for about fifteen months. After being in practice at Waimate for two years, he occupied positions for short periods in the Wellington Hospital and in the Lunacy Department. Dr. Hassell has been medical superintendent at Mt. View, Auckland, and in 1895 took charge of Mt. View and Porirua.