SCHOOL DENTISTRY
DEPUTATION TO MINISTER Provision for travelling dental clinics for country schools was one of the requests made to the Minister of Education, Hon. R. A. W light, by the Canterbury Education Board. .Mr W. R. Spencer, chairman, said that tin: towns were fairly well provided for, hut very little had been done for the country. The Minister replied that it was not leally a. question which concerned his Department. He hud received a note from the Minister of Health, the Don. J. A. Young, who was thoroughly alive to the need,s of the. children attending tlio country schools. Personally, said Mr Wright, lie agreed that dental clinics were jti'Sl as essential as education. Mr Young had said that cadi year more clinics were being established, but so lar a satisfactory method of dealing with country schools had Dot been devised. Mr Young did not approve of caravan clinics, but as soon as possible he hoped to get a satisfactory method of attending to the country children. Air Wright said he iVouhl pass on the wishes of the Board to the Minister of Health.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17157, 6 October 1926, Page 8
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185SCHOOL DENTISTRY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17157, 6 October 1926, Page 8
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