ONERAHI NEWS.

Northern Advocate, 6 August 1924, Page 7

ONERAHI NEWS.

SCHOOL DENTISTRY

For the past ten days or so quito a levee has been in progress in the anteroom of the Town Hall, where t Miss Carlton, dentist on the staff of i tho Health Department, has presided as hostess. There is always something particularly terrifying about a dentist's cliair and there are few adults who would not rather run a mile than j sit in it. Fears are allayed, however, where absolute confidence exists. Miss I Carlton, in her duty of caring for the teeth of the young scholars at the Onerahi school, quickly won her way 1 to a spirit of trust and sympathy with I youngsters and parents alike. Quick, deft and clever work ha 3 been the order throughout. It was really won- ] derful to see the timid infant, reassured by kindly words, mount the extraction chair, when out came the erring tooth almost before the victim could say "booh." As an operator Miss Carlton seems not only to have reduced pain and terror to a minimum, but apparently to make her Ismail patients to look upon it as fun. I Certainly she managed to win the I hearts and affection of all the small I tots. But then, Miss Carlton has a 'way with her. • SIGNS OF PROGRESS. i The reconstruction of the telegiaph j line from Duck Creek to Onerahi post | office and the replacement of the old i poles with heavier timber may be i taken as gratifying evidence of Onerahi's growing advancement. The work j has been necessitated to cope with I the increasing telegraph and telephone i business of the past and to carry the | extra weight of wires. The telegraph j reconstruction party, under the lead- | ership of Mr E. Boyd, has completed j the replacement and re-erection work |of the poles to the post office and j some of the wires are already in posiJ tion. In response to application from | fresh recruits to the party telephone • system the line of poles has now been carried along Church Street to Mackenzie Avenue to join up with several residences. The coming week will probably sec the work of placing and I insulating the wires complete on the | new section and it is understood that I n further extension of the system is 1 likely to become necessary in the near ! future. What with increased teleI graph facilities and a 'bus service it ) only remains for a paternal Govern- [ ment to -"ante up'' the £7000 promised I for the waterworks loan and our J salubrious suburb will at once take its j deserved place in the vanguard of I complete modernity.