DENTAL MISSION

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 108, 20 February 1950, Page 4

DENTAL MISSION

N.Z. SERVICES TO BE STUDIED (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Fob. 18. A United Kingdom Government dental mission which will study dental services in New Zealand arrived in Auckland by flying-boat to-day. “We have come to learn,” said the leader of the party of five (Dr. W. G. Senior), chief dental officer of the Ministrv of Health. New Zealand methods of treating school children will be the main object of study during the party’s three weeks’ stay. They will visit the dental nurses’ training school in Wellington and dental treatment centres in the North and South Islands. “This was the first mission of its kind to leave the United Kingdom,” Dr. Senior said. “Britain has its national health and other welfare services but the Government is anxious to learn how the New Zealand dental service was run.”

Other members of the party are Professor R. V. Bradshaw, C.8.E., Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons, and chairman of the standing dental advisory committee of the Ministry of Health, Dr. T. H. J. Douglas, chief dental adviser to the Department of Health of Scotland, Dr. PI. T. Roper-Plall, vice-chairman of the standing committee, and Dr. A. T. Wynne, of the Ministry of Education.