 He also received training in recently developed methods of blood analysis from Dr Cedric Stanton Hicks.Additionally, Josland spent a brief period employed as relieving bacteriologist at the District Hospital in Whangarei.Accompanied by his family, Josland arrived in Upper Hutt near Wellington in 1929, at the invitation of Dr Cyril Hopkirk, to set up a biochemistry laboratory at the Wallaceville Animal Research Centre.