ONE DENTAL SCHOOL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19147, 15 April 1924, Page 8

ONE DENTAL SCHOOL

A SECOND UNNECESSARY. VIEWS OF DENTAL ASSOCIATION. tFnoJi Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, April 14. ■ Alter a full discussion a representative meeting lo the executive council ui flic New Zealand Dental Association, held in Wellington during the wcea-cnu, condemned the proposal raised at the last meeting of the University Senate, that a second dental school should he established at Auckland. There are eo branches of the Dental Association, and all but two —Gisborne and Taranaki, were represented at the meeting. Apologies for absence were received hum the representatives of those associations, and as rnav be seen from the following list of executive members who attended, the i tsulution passed was an authoritat've expression of opinion on behalf of the profession; Messrs A. Dickens (Invercargill), J. Lusk and A. Crystall (Dunedin), J. H. Don (Timaru), 11. itattray and D. V. Donaldson (Christchurch), W. Squires (Nelson), A. Bacon (Blenheim), J. Conison (West Coast), M. Denniston and K. C. Morpeth (Wellington), E. H. Pope (Palmerston North), .1. S. Tripe (Wairarapa), A. A. MMiouan (Hawke's Bay), i.. Sheriff (Wanganui), J. N. Bishworth, A. Chennell, B. S. Finn (national honorary treasurer) and (.'. H. Moss (national honorary secretary, Auckland), h. D. Bell, of the Dunedin Dental School), and Dr Marsden were present by invitation, and Mr G. C. Tripe (dominion president of the association) was in the oha : r. Apologies for absence were received from Dr Pickerill (head of the Dental School), Mr T. A. Hunter (director of Dental Hygiene) and Air G. L. Taylor (chairman of the association executive. The text of the resolution passed was; “That this meeting of the Executive of the New Zealand Dental Association is against the establishment of a second dental school in New Zealand.' Loiters from London to Paris which are posted before 7 o’clock in the evening are now delivered in Paris by the first delivery in the morn ing. There is a plant found in India and Cuba named the “abrus.” which is supposed to foretell earthquakes by changing its colour. A child said to his father: “Daddy, what is a collision?" “IBs when two things come together,’’ was the father’s vacuo reply. But th» child scorned satisLed. “Oh,” he said. "I know —twins !”