TASK FOR DENTISTS

Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21035, 10 February 1940, Page 6

TASK FOR DENTISTS

OVERHAULING TEETH WORK AT HOPU HOPU CAMP 500 EXTRACTIONS IN WEEK Dentists and dental mechanics are working at full capacity at the Hopu Hopu military camp making each soldier fit for active service as far as teeth are concerned. The fact that as many as 500 teeth are extracted each week at the camp and that two dental mechanics are making an average of 50 dentures a week, indicates the amount of work involved. Coupled with the big programme of x-rays of the troops at the Waikato Hospital at the present lime, the dental work shows the extensive overhaul that is being given the soldiers of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Forty-one per cent of the men of the men of the first echelon of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force had full dentures, but the percentage will be higher in the second echelon at present training. The fact that many men declared temporarily unfit when the first echelon men were being examined have since been called up accounts for a large amount of the dental work now necessary. Dental trouble appears to have been the mpst common defect in the young men of New Zealand. Service Standards Service standards require a minimum of nine biting points and the officers of the Dental Corps often have a problem in preserving this number. They work in marquees and the denture annexe has a chair that is unique. The seat is a case that may have contained tins of jam and the back and stays are pieces of timber. An old cushion covers the wooden head-rest. The other day one man endured two extractions and 18 fillings in a single day. Both patient and dental officer had several “smokos” during the treatment. 13 MEN RESPOND RESULT OF THE APPEAL As a result of the military parade in Hamilton last night which was staged as an encouragement to recruiting, 13 men enlisted with the recruiting sergeants stationed in Victoria Street. INSPECTING TROOPS GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S VISIT PARADE AT HOPU HOPU The Governor-General, Viscount Galway, will inspect members of the second echelon of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force who are in training at the Hopu Hopu military camp on Monday. A ceremonial parade will be held. His Excellency will arrive at the camp at 11 a.m., when the men will be on parade. After inspecting the troops the Governor-General will take the salute during a march past. Later he will address the men. PLANS FOR ARTILLERY ACTIVE SERVICE CONDITIONS WAIOURU ADVANCE TRAINING Advanced training under actual war conditions will be given the artillery units encamped at Hopu Hopu, when they enter the Waiouru camp on February 19. The period of this training is not yet determined. It will be the first time that artillery troops of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force have used the mountain camp, as arrangements could not be made to accommodate the artillery units of the first echelon. Instead the guns were taken to the Raglan Hills for live shell firing to give the soldiers experience. SERVING IN THE FLEET FORMER HAMILTON SCHOLAR Formerly a pupil of the Southwell School, Hamilton, Sub-Lieutenant Jock Clark-Campbell is at present serving in the British Navy as acting navigator on H.M.S. Wanderer. He is the grandson of Mr R. Eyre, Mayor of Ngaruawahia.

Sub-Lieutenant Clark-Campbell left Hamilton in 1933 for England, where he studied at the Dartmouth Naval College.