DENTISTS' CONFERENCE:

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 143, 16 December 1908, Page 8

DENTISTS' CONFERENCE:

MEETING TO BE HELD IN WELLINGTON. Dentists are generally serious people, and their work makes for seriousness. Therefore, at a time when many folk, in the flush of the summer holidays, will be holiday-making and seeking nice things to eat, dentists will be discussing theory and practice calculated to enable the public to get more and more enjoyment out of the eating process. On 4th January delegates from the various organisations comprising the New Zealand Dental Association will meet in Wellington, and they, have a programme which will occupy them till 7th January. The chief features of the order-paper are : 4th January, 12 noon, a paper or» "Gold Inlay," by Professor Sykes, D.D.S., of San FrancißCO ; "Extirpating Pulp by Pressure Anaesthesia," Mr. A. A!. Macdiarmid (Wellington); "Goslie's Method of Repairing Broken Facings," Mr. C. W. Hay (Dunedin) : 3.30 p.m., reception to members and friends by the president, Mr. Arthur Hoby ; 8 p.m., president's address. sth January — Morning, "Dental Education in New Zealand," Professor Pickerill; "Contour Gold Filling, using Myer's Obtunder" Mr. P. T. Houston (Wanganm) ; "Taggart Gold Inlay," Mr. J. S. Atkinson (Christchurch) ; afternoon and evening, social festivities. 6th January — Morning, "Porcelain Inlays," Professor Syke3 ; "Outlook for Ethical Dental Associations," Dr. N. K. Cox; "Gas and .Ethyl Chloride," Mr. L. V: Davies ''(Wellington) ; "Gas and Oxygen, Dr. Coleman's Method," Mr. W. R. Hursthouse (Wellington) ; afternoon, cricket and tennis at "Day's Bay ; evening, lecture on "Alocolar Abscess from Pathological and Clinical Standpoint," by Mr. A. M. Carter (Auckland). 7th January — Morning, "British Dental Association," Professor Pickerill ; demonstration of removable bridge work by Messrs. A. H. Hoby and Kemble Walsh ; "Sol,brig Inlay," Mr. W. B. Struthers (Wellington) ;'"The Application oi Cast Gold .in Prosthetics," Mr. N e l son Mitchell (Auckland). In the afternoon a, committee's report on school children's teeth will be presented by Mr. G. S. Dixon, and the discussion will' be opened by Mr. H. M. Kilgour.

The Hospital, authorities report this afternoon that there is no improvement in the condition of Peter C. Hume, the young man who was shot in the head at Kilbirnie last Friday night. Mr. Matthews, Chief State Forester, and Mrs. Matthews, and Miss Bayloy, an American lady journalist, will join the Hinemoa at the Bluff for the trip v to Milford Sound. The death is announced of Mr. Thos. J. Harris, of Hangaroa, Poverty Bay, He was the first settler at Hangaroa. As instancing the great improvements which have been made to the Gisborne Harbour the Gisborne Times mentions ■that ten yeai-9 ago it was not possible for vessels with 100 tons of cargo to get up to the wharf, whereas new steamers of 580 tons, drawing lift, of water, and with 500 tons on board, can discharge into the trucks on the wharf. The C. and A. Odliu Timber and Hard ware Company publishes a business announcement in our advertising columns. Tho annual meeting of tho United Building Society will bo held thia evouing in tho Chamber of Commerce.