NEW DENTAL CLINIC.
NURSES NOT AVAILABLE. MINISTER GIVES REASON. 'A (By Telegraph.—-Press "Association.) .; Following the of /a deputation to-dayv' the Minister of Health, the Hon. A: J. 'Stallworthy,: approved the lishment of 'a: dental clinic 'ki Palmefston North, to serve the heeds?6f six town schools, and 20 a-radius of ten miles.. The present clinic barely serves ;ithe:need iof; the town' schools. . .' 5-he; ; the scheme, 1 said: that owing to the; shortage of nurses the new clinic 'might not be working before /April': next* year, .but ■. in the meantime "the school committees could go ahead with the building. ; . ; „, In "regard to £he shortage, of dental nurses, Mr.••; Staliwdrthy.' ''} ."added;"-; that several of them,- after being; trained, served notice on the Department, because ihey were to -be .married, iri spite of the fact thatithey signed a bond, to -serve for three";yearsl';,.The Department .was seriously considering the -question of enforcing thel)pnd,'so that in future any. young: man who wanted 'to marry _ a pretty dental nurse would have to smile . and pay up. :\ t i
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 21, 25 January 1930, Page 23
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