INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 14044, 30 October 1909, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

LICENSEE'FINED! .: ... ' Tor Press Association. •■■'.',.>. . V Ocfc.'29:r Thomas W. Deacon,, licensee of the ICuiner Hotel, convicted of- permitting drunken ness, was fined £5. The license was hot endorsed, the Magistrate (Mr Ctillcn) stating .that the licensee had a most difficult problem in maintaining ordor with, his class of cus.tomers. - ALLEGED ABDUCTION. MASTERTON; Oct: 29. At the Magistrate's Court this, morning Alfred Charles Warren was com-, mitted for trial. at the next sitting of the Supreme "Court in Wellington, on a charge- of the abduction of a 10-voar-okl boy. The father:'of the .boy stated in evidence that his' wife had left her, homo with accused, ; taking three children with herV "Complainant, obtained' a" divorce and: an order for the custody; of the children.-: He took the children to a hoarding-houso at Maitere on the Main Trunk line, whore accused and the mother ,of the ehihlren appeared one morning.* ' Tbreed onen the window, dropped the.boy':out, and drove him away; Bailwas allowed ■accused'in one .surety of £IOO. A DENTAL CASE. GORE, Oct. 29. Mr Kciiriek,' S.M.,;t,OTaay;.pave judgment in a case brouchfc by the Dental Association against W. T.. Splatt. that, not being registered under, the Dental Act;* 1908, audi not,' being a medical : practitioner, he did,'unlawfully; have attached to liis business .premises, (the following words:- '" Painleair-<lc»tfc.t, upstairs. Painless 2s 6d; complete set of : '" teeth : from ■-'£3.; 3s. Hours 9 a-m. till 0 p.m., Saturday* till 9 p.m.'' implying .or, tending to the belief that ho carried on'/the -practice of dentistry.. The Magistrate held that under the Enclish case hearing,.on section 21 of : , tlib' New Zealand. Actj-iior thing could' prevents a.' hian .doing 'ft. dentist's work, and it is .not. wrong' for liiitt to inform'the-public thn,t < he; v does what is lawful for hini -t0,<10,-"h'iifc;"al-though he may act as a .dentist, ho shall not call himself a dentist or use words implving that he is qualified to do the work of a dentist,'unless lie/is registered. In vipw of the" .fact', that Mr Splatt's name did noVappear. Nt nil oh the premises, and .the that he ' eninloved a qualified dentist". rick held that the words did not imply that Mr Splatt was the painlessv dentist referred to. The information wns dismissed. Notice of'.appeal was lodged. , _.