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Otago Witness, Issue 3969, 8 April 1930, Page 29

There was a very interested group of some 40 young women outside the training school of the school dental clinic system at Wellington. It looked like a stop-work meeting, but in reality it was a “ begin-work ” movement, comprising young women from all over New Zealand. They had been selected from over 200 applicants as trainees for the dental school. The period of training is two years, with a bond for three years’ additional service. While waiting for the hour to report for service, the Minister of Health (Mr A. J. Stallworthy) had invited the party to look over Parliament Buildings. The young women, some of whom had not previously visited Wellington, were must interested. Now that the hurricane season is over in the Islands, the Melanesian Mission steamer Southern Cross is getting ready for her next cruise, and will saff from Auckland on Tuesday for the New Hebrides and the Solomons. The familiar steamer has only four more trips to make before being replaced by two schooners, which will do her work much more economically. Final plans and specifications are now being prepared (says the Auckland Star), and -when they are complete the work of building the schooners will be gone on with. They will have their headquarters in the Islands, and will not come to Auckland, as the Southern Cross does at the present time.