AUCKLAND MOTES.

Grey River Argus, 2 September 1908, Page 3

AUCKLAND MOTES.

wn- r, AUCKLAND, Sep. 1. William Porter, a single man, aged 25 years, died suddenly between 7.30 last night and 3.30 this morning on the fishing boat Maroa. 'Hie deceased was out on a week's: fishing cruise with the two Sanford Bros. He seemed in the best of spirits last night, and retired at 7.30. When they went to. wake him at 3.30 he was dead. An inquest will be held.

Dr. Purdy, District Health Officer, in a lecture last night urged the teaching of hygiene in schools as a compulsory subject, together with systematic medical inspection of schools. Let them have competent dentists to attend to the teeth of the children in our state schools, at least in each of the chief centres. Dental dispensaries should be established, to which all children with carious teeth should be sent: All volunteers should be allowed free to consult a 'dentist, who would be paid a regulation fee according to the work done. The standard of the people would be raised by the subsidising of State dentists. Next to a sanatorium for consumptives, and a children's hospital, he could not advise anyone desirous of leaving money to a good capse to do better than :to found and endow a dental dispensary. (Applause.

A young girl whose parents reside at Waihi was in tp,|vn during Fleet week, and took her young brother out to see the 1 sights. In the crowd she lost sight of him, ,and heard subse-q~~--i-r that he had been injured and taken to the hospital. The shock and sense of her failure to carry out the rrtiat of her young relative preyed so much on her mind that when she got home she swallowed some match heads, and had as a result to.be taken herself to the hospital. When the case was called in Court it was explained that she had but recently recovered from a severe attack of enteric fever, and as she appeared to have regained her mental balance the girl was allowed to return to the care of her relatives.