OTOROHANGA NEWS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 59, Issue 4221, 8 December 1939, Page 8

OTOROHANGA NEWS

SCHOOL DENTAL CLINIC. -At ?^, e f ent there are approximately 000 children having their teeth attended to at the Otorohanga Consolidated District High School. There is only one dental nurse in attendance cons equently there are some 150 children awaiting examination and initial treatment. The school committee have applied for extensions to the clinic in order that two nurses could be employed throughout the year. Another chair is to be installed, for a few months, in an effort to bring the work up-to-date. The fee charged at the clinic, to parents who can pay, is 10s for any one family per annum, but this amount is not for the cost of dental treatment. The amount collected pays for the maintenance of the institution, cleaning, etc., and also, £3O a year to the Department as a levy towards the cost of materials used for each nurse employed. When the clinic is enlarged the amount payable to the Department will be £6O per annum. Until the clinic is enlarged this cannot be done and every effort is being made to expedite the matter. We understand the dental fees are not coming in as well as might be expected. NOVEMBER WEATHER. The rainfall during November, taken at Otorohanga, totalled 2.24 inches on ten days, the heaviest fall being 5.8 inches on the 25th. In November of 1938, 4.53 inches fell on 13 days. The highest temperature was 78 degrees on the 15th as against 70 degrees being recorded on 20 days last month. VALEDICTORY. Mr and Mrs George Sutherland, for the past 27 years settlers of the

Whawharua district (south-east of Otorohanga), were tendered a farewell evening, in view of their having sold their property, to retire at Otorotanga. Mr Sutherland had resided continuously on his property during that period with the exception of two years service at the great war. There was a large attendance of district settlers and friends from far afield.

An enjoyable social evening was spent, and Mr and Mrs Sutherland were the recipients of a canteen of cutlery, and the five other members of the popular family also received handsome gifts. Mr J. Horneman, in making the presentation, referred in eulogistic terms to the Sutherlands and expressed the regrets of the settlers at losing such people from their district.