DENTAL COUNCIL
RECENT APPOINTMENTS
Additional particulars concerning the appointment of the Dental Council were given by the Minister f>f Health (the Hon. P. Fraser) last night.
Mr. Fraser said that Messrs. W. P. Sommerville. Wellington, and XT. Cooper, Dunedin, had been chosen from the North and South Island respectively as representatives of those dentists who were not members of the New Zealand Dental Association. Their appointment would fulfil an arrangement entered into between the association and the non-association denProfessor R. B. Dodds is the dean of the Dental School in the University of Otago, and Professor C. E. Hercus is the dean of the Medical.School in the same institution. . Dr. P. P. Lynch has been appointed following his nomination •by the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association. . " Messrs. J. N. Rishworth, Auckland, and O. V. Davies, of Dunedin, were elected by postal ballot recently to represent the registered dentists of the North and South Islands respectively:
The Act provides that the first chairman of the council shall be the Direc-tor-General of Health or his deputy, and in this connection the Minister stated that arrangements have been made for Mr. J. L.'Saunders, Director of the Dental Division of the Department, to occupy the position of ..chairman on behalf of the Director-General.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 57, 4 September 1937, Page 7
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