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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 13 June 1907, Page 1

Some interesting reniSfk* were made during the interview which Auckland dentists had with the Minister for Education laitt week relative to the PMtpoSftl -that a dental department should be attached to the Auckland Hospital. Mr Carter stated that members of the Auckland Dental Association were willing to give honorary services, though it might also be necessary to have a regular dentist employed, a young man at probably £200 to £260 a year. Mr Bennett said every month thousands of teeth were extracted which should have been saved if proper attention had been given to them. This wholesale slaughter of a valuable organ went on throughout the colony, and their aim was to stop it. Dr Chatfield said he did a good deal of dental work at the Orphans' Home, but all he could do was to remove the teeth, and yet many of them could have been saved. He had found a wonderful improvement in the teeth after the use of the tooth brush became general. In the course of his reply the Minister said the State would be called upon ft) find half the cost of such a dental department in connection with any hospital, and he could not understand how. any . board could hesitate about making the provision suggested by the. Dental Association, as the amount involved was not a large one when services were oflered gratuitously. The board should not hesitate m supplying a room and the necessary equipment. , The Hamburg-America Shipping Co. lias teased the largest theatre in Hamburg for Sunday afternoons from September until April of next year, to provide its workmen with high-class operatic and dramatic performances. Admission is to be free to all employees earning less than £2 a week, but those earning more than this amount will be charged a small nominal admission fee. The works to be produced include the operas "Faust" and "William Tell.'" According to the Secretary for Agriculture (Mr Ritchie), who has jost returned to Wellington from the South Island, farmers in the districts between Tokomairo and Rangitata are still looking forward anxiously to a change in the weather. Very little rain has fallen in that part of the colony for a considerable time, and the breaking-up of the drought will be heartily welcomed. Wheat-sowing is being retarded owing to the dry state of the soil. Turnips aro giving out in. some places, and tha supply of other feed for sheep and cattle will become scanty unless rain falls soon. Frederick VIII., King of Denmark, now on a visit to England with his wife, was born in 1843, and succeeded to the throne on 29th January," 1906, He is a brother of Queen Alexandra and of the Empress Dowager of Russia, who lately visited England. The present visit may possibly have some of the political significance that the German press nowadays so readily attributes to King Edward in his relationship withother rulers. According to "The Times," Germany has been carrying out a diplomatic campaign in Denmark tfo induce thai. Power to close tho Baltic in the event of a European war. Fear has been expressed that Germany will soon have established her absolute preponderance in the Baltic, and will convert that 6ea into a mare clausum . A brewery, malt.-kiln, and fifty-two licensed houses left by the late Mr John Dawber for the poor of Lincoln, the charity to be administered by the Lincoln Corporation, were sold at auction at Lincoln recently for £66,475 to Messrs Mowbray and Co., of G-rant-ham. This only constitutes a portion of Ike bequest. The Dingley Tariff Act, passed In 1897, imposed a comprehensive system of protection for the Homei producers and manufacturers against competition. In a Bill of 1890, provision for reciprocity treaties had been made, but four years later an amending .bill deprived^ the Government of the power of enter-' ing into such arrangements for varying the tariff. The Dingley Bill revived the reciprocity provision, but required that negotiations for the benefit of it should be begun within two years of the measure becoming law. Within that period, France, Germany, Italy, and other nations had entered into or. negotiated for reciprocal ' treaties; and Great Britain had negotiated for special concessions to the West Indies and other outlying possessions. The scope of reciprocity under the Dingley Tariff cannot now be enlarged beyond the nations that applied for treaties withm the specified period. That is the explanation of the Washington statement. Great Britain could _ not now seek concessions under the Dingley Tariff for herself, but doubtless _ she could do so for the West Indies if necessary. She contents herself with most-favoured-nation treatment, which she has received from the United States since 1815. No nation can get a tariff concession without Great Britain also reaping the benefit of it.