BIRKENKEAD SCHOOL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1930, Page 8

BIRKENKEAD SCHOOL.

DENTAL CLINIC OPENING. DONATION FOR IMPROVEMENTS. The Director of the Division of Dental Hygiene of the Health Department has notified the Birkenhead School Committee that Nurse T. P. Mills has been appointed to take charge-of the Birkenhead School dental clinic, and she will arrive on Thursday. The director said Nurse Mills was a keen and capable oflicer and with the co-operation of the committee and of the parents she would make the Birkenhead clinic a very efficient one. The equipment for the clinic had been forwarded. The chairman. Mr. John Mac Donald. paid at a committee meeting last night that the opening ceremony would be performed by Mr. H. G. R. Mason, M.P., at 3 p.m. on Saturday. A letter wae received stating that a meeting was to be held at Greenhithe with a view to the thirty-three children at that school being included in the '.scheme. A cheque for £40 was received from Mr. W. B. Darlow, a member of the Birkenhead■ Borough Council and the Birkenhead member of the Waitemata Power Board. This sum, at the donor's request, is to be used for school ground improvements, with a view to relieving local unemployment. The headmaster reported that 80 per cent of the pupils voluntarily attended the Nelson system of Bible reading.