DENTAL CLINICS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 49, Issue 201, 11 June 1929, Page 6

DENTAL CLINICS.

SHOULD SERVE ALL CHILDREN. (Special to the “Guardian.”) AUCKLAND, June 10. Speaking yesterday at the laying of the foundation stone of the new Roman Catholic school at Te Aroha, the Hon. H. Atmore invited the gathering to evidence his visit as a desire, as Minister of Education, to legislate for the whole of the people of New Zealand, irrespective of class, creed or colour. It was important that all !>oys and girls should share in the benefits conferred by State dental clinics. He looked on such provision as/ a tardy act of justice to the children, whose need should be considered their right, State 'school or anything else. He was strongly of the view that the scholars at private schools had in the past suffered injustice by being prevented from participating in the State dental service that their parents had helped to pay for. When he was in New Zealand the former Secretary of State for toe Dominions, Air L. C. Al. S. Amery, had told him that the New Zealand system of education was unexcelled in the world. Since that time, said the Minister, l.e had found cause for dissatisfaction in the system. He thought that it was dominated too greatly by academic considerations. He preferred the idea that education should proceed along the lines of the discovered aptitude of the pupil.