CLINICIANS FROM AUSTRALIA

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25271, 25 August 1947, Page 3

CLINICIANS FROM AUSTRALIA

ARRIVAL TO ATTEND DENTAL CONFERENCE

(P.A.) AUCKLAND. August 24. Three prominent Australian clinicians, representing botn the Australian School of Dentistry and the Australian Dental Association, arrived at Auckland by flying-boat on Saturday to deliver papers and lectures at the thirty-ninth annual conference of the New Zealand Dental Association at Auckland this week. The visitors were Dr. E. Johnson, examiner in prosthesis for the master's degree, and post-graduate lecturer at the University of Melbourne; Dr. C. D. Hearman, lecturer in preventive dentistry at the dental school of the university; and Dr. R. G. Williams, senior lecturer in charge of the Department of Periodontia at the school. Dr. Johnson replaced Dr. W. J. Tuckfield, head of the Department of Prosthesis in the dental school at Melbourne. and an authority with a worldwide reputation, who was unable to come to New Zealand because of his wife’s illness. The conference is the first .to be held in Auckland since 1934. It will be attended by about 200 members, and will be opened by the Mayor of Auckland, Mr J. A. C. Allum. The presidential address will be given by Mr W. B. Tennent, of Palmerston North.