APPEALS FOR DENTISTS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16204, 6 May 1918, Page 4

APPEALS FOR DENTISTS.

SOUTH ISLAND IiKSKIIViSTS

The Nov Zealand Dental Association made iipplicati in bclore tho Fu st Auckland .Unitary Service ivoard last w-rek in iTs;>i.ct of tour ol" its inembyns, .Mr A. .M. Carter appearing in s-upj>ort. He lmoitioned that, tlie Ahi-o(:j«tic:i .Tonght tho reteniion <;l one dentist lor evoiy tliiec thou-.-ind prople, and the scarcity yas now Retting so acute in some parU_that> proportion cnnld hardly he niiiiiiuuned. The As.-ofiution only appealed in connexion with ivyibtrrcd Six months' exuviae J le.-ve was granted to Ivan V. Wil-on (Featherston), -who was reported "to be in charge ol : the practice of a (lentiit at Hokitika, who «'_as seriously ill. Regarding "Waiter Fnirclough (Rprcydon) and Sydney Hunt (Woolstonl, sine die decisions were given, v.-.tj '.ho stipulation tliat tho oxeniption held ?.s lon<r as they remained in the profession. The Association ha 1 recommended tlie exemption of Hunt conditionally upon his tcking ov'rr jiractice in Heerto'i. Tho appeal of Arthiii - E. H. lJarth, of Dunedin, had been hefore tho Board, but was not then supported by the Association, which now reported that the man was indif-pji-Kable to the practice of Mr Ifyer*, v,ho was an elderly man, and would have to close bis business down if .Barth v.-as reeoved. Very strong were made from tho IXme.lin representatives' of the Association in favour of 15,triit's retention, w!:i;;}i the Board .'Uv.nted.