UNREGISTERED DENTISTS.
TWO CONVICTIONS RECORDED,
ACTION BY DENTAL ASSOCIATION,
(Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, December 10. Reserved Judgment was given by Mr F. K. Hunt, B.M.,'in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, in cases brought by Mr H. D. Crump, secretary of the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Dental Association, against unregistered dentists. H. Rau was fined £6 Is and costs for practising dentistry when not being registered as a dentist under the Dentistry Act of 1908. For a similar offence Sidney J. Hall was fined £2 and costs. A fine of a like amount was imposed on Hall in respect to a further charge of holding himself out by imSlication as being prepared to practice entistry in that he used words “ dental technician.” The amount of the penalty in the Case of Rau was increased in order that an appeal might be lodged. In reference to Hall’s case Mr Hunt said it was clear from the evidence that the defendant used the word " technician ” to delude the public into thinking that he was a qualified dentist. The Act was designed for the purpose of protecting the public and also young men who ,had to pursue lengthy studies' to qualify as dentists.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21214, 20 December 1930, Page 13
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