COULD PROMISE NOTHING.
MINISTER - AND DOTAL . CLINICS. ' ■ PARENTS DO NOT HELP ENOTSjfc / School dental clinics was a mentioned by a deputation to theHaL J. A- Young, Minister of Health, befon' he left Auckland for the North. - W. J. Jordan, M.P., introduced Mr. T- 6. Harriman, who represenUiitli ' districts of Onehunga, Mount and Otahuhu, explained the position. Jfc was stated that 15 schools in the ant- ; had no dental sereviee. » : The Minister was sympathetic " reply, but" held.out hojKtbkt the request would be granted I The main trouble was that the Department had only 60 dental nurses to attcai to 200.000 children, 35,000 of | were being reached by the service, ijjfci® Young went on to say that the probfc* was a big one, and very, little ftrfp W" j been forthcoming from parents. - the present time the Department Health could only handle 30 trainee? and the period of training extended ovpr •two years. Claims for devial service had been made by private schools, but the Department oould not entertain tht proposals because children State schools had first claim- Heeonli i promise the deputation nothing.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 114, 17 May 1927, Page 8
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182COULD PROMISE NOTHING. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 114, 17 May 1927, Page 8
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