TO PROTECT PUBLIC

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 148, 20 December 1930, Page 31

TO PROTECT PUBLIC

UNREGISTERED DENTISTS PINED

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, 19th December. Reserved judgment was given by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court, in cases brought by Mr. H. D. Crump, secretary of the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Dental Association, against unregistered dentists. 11. Rau was fined £5 Is and costs for practising dentistry when not being registered as a dentist under the Dentistry Act of 1908. For a similar offence Sidney J. Hall was fined £2 and costs. A fine of a like amount was imposed on Hall in respect to a further charge of holding himself out by implication as being prepared to practise dentistry, in that he used the words "dental technician." The' amount of the penalty in the case of Rau was increased in order that an appeal might be lodged. In referring to Hall's case, Mr. Hunt said it was clear from the evidence that the defendant used the word '' technician" to delude the public into thinking that he was a qualified dentist. The ,Act was designed for the purpose of protecting the public and also young men who had to pursue lengthy studies to qualify as dentists.