DENTAL CLINIC QUESTION

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 294, 16 April 1941, Page 4

DENTAL CLINIC QUESTION

Sir—l must tliank "Country Reader" for his letter in Wednesday's BEACON", his enthusiasm is one of the few, the very few silver linings which I have encountered in many years of heart-breaking efforts to secure for our children what is theirs by light, that is, equal treatment to that which their Town cousins are enjoying.. The only bitter drop in my cup of joy is that "Country Reader" did not supply his name so that we could have a go at it together, but he will no doubt make haste to remedy, that little matter. For "Country Reader's" benefit, I am able to supply the following information. The Health Department not only supplies the nurse, but also a fairly liberal subsidy towards the building of a dental clinic in approved cases such as— Whakatane. But to ask them only to send a nurse out into the country districts is evidently altogether unreasonable and not to be expected. Perhaps such a proposal is not complicated enough for the departmental heads to solve. You see "Country Reader" if the nurse comes out to where the children are that would settle the whole qu^csj^oi^^n.ohe hit, but if the children to come to the nurse, that is evidently as far as the Department is concerned an "evcrf.oAving stream" which it is all important to keep running at all costs in spite of petrol restrictions etc. What does it matter if those little children have to suffer more or less as a consequence of an additional thirty miles or so of shaking in an overcrowded vehicle, . they must evidently take that sort of things as a consequence of allowing themselves to be horn in the country. Yours etc., J. NIELSEN.