A HARD CASE
UNREGISTERED DENTIST
LARGE FAMILY TO KEEP
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, 27th March.
"What can I do with a man like this?" asked Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court to-day when Gordon Clarke, a middle-aged man, came before him charged with practising dentistry without being registered. "Tho law says that he must not do it, but on the other hand he has got a wife and seven children to keep, and ho says this is the only work he can do. If I le' him go X am being a party to an unlawful practice." Clarke, who had boon fined previously for a similar offence, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon within twelve months. It was pointed out to him that the maximum penalty was a fine of £100.- He would be punished if he appeared again.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 74, 28 March 1931, Page 8
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148A HARD CASE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 74, 28 March 1931, Page 8
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