BREACH OF THE DENTAL ACTS

Evening Star, Issue 15882, 14 August 1915, Page 5

BREACH OF THE DENTAL ACTS

DEFENDANT FINED. [Per United Press Association.] . WELLINGTON, August 15. At the Magistrate's Court to-dav, before Mr D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., Vincent Motley u-as charged with having on May 49, at heat-hemon, used (.voids on a P l ’,’! 1 . , card implying or tending to the keliet that' defendant was carrying on the practice of dentistry contrary to statute. lho defendant was further charged that, not being a person registered under the .Dental Act, 1908,, and not being medical practitioner, he did take and use the name, title, and description of “dentist” by informing Maurice Edward Donniston that he was a dentist; and a further information charged him with taking or using, or by inference adopting, the title and description of “dentist” by allowing Janies Anderson, proprietor of the Royal Hotel, Featherston, to describe him in the presence of Maurice Edward Donniston as “Mr Morley, the dentist,” For the defence it was urged that according to English law no offence had been committed, and that it was necessary for a sign to be displayed outside the person’s place of business before an offence could be committed against the New Zealand law. Printing on cards was not sufficient. The Magistrate said it was plain from the evidence that defendant had represented himself as a dentist, and that the printed card indicated he was one. A fine of £5 was imposed, with costs (£3 5s 8d), on one information, and a conviction entered in the others.