UNREGISTERED DENTISTS

Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1930, Page 7

UNREGISTERED DENTISTS

MEN FINED AT AUCKLAND.

ATTEMPT “TO DELUDE PUBLIC.”

. . By Telegraph.— Association. *•. Auckland, Last Night. Reserved judgment was given by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court to-day in cases brought. by M r * H. D. Crump, secretary of the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Dental Association, against unregistered dentists. .

H. Rau was fined £5 le and costs for practising dentistry when not being registered as a dentist under the Dentistry Act of 1008. 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 implication as being prepared to practice dentistry in that he used the words “dental technician.” The amount of the penalty in the case of Rau was increased In-order that an appeal might be lodged. In referring to Hall’s case Mr. Hunt said it was clear from the evidence that defendant used, the word “technician” to delude the public into thinking he was a qualified dentist. The Act whs designed for the purpose of protecting. the public and young men:who had to pursue lengthy studies to qualify as dentists.