DENTAL OFFICERS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 93, 14 January 1919, Page 6

DENTAL OFFICERS

Sir'i-Yoiii- sub-lender. of Saturday Inst, ancnt the translation and promo- ' tion of certain dental officers from Hlio camps to the Expeditionary Foreo would v seem to do these gentlemen scant nistice. You may not know that'these officers have slaved in- camp for a period of jiot less than: twelve months': indeed, some of them hnvo rendered Rood and faithful'service for the last two or three rears,- and onlv__ now- that they are urßently required, ,at a few hours' notice, for hard and strenuous service' in the discharge depots of England have they bfen_ given a little consideration and tardy justicp in the way of promotion. Again, all -the officers of the Dental Corps,. savo the three senior, carry only the siibstantive rank of lieutenant (not a very high" stat*, after all), and any, further promotion is purely temporary. It is fairly safe to assume that com- . plaint-about this matter has_ emanated from Rome disgruntled individual. Tim. Expeditionary Force knows ' full well the value of the service rendorr-d to our finhtinp: men by the N.Z.D.C. both in the camps and abroad. The writer has no wish to indulge in neirsniippr'controversy-, but having served in the Dental .Corns, .both , at home and abroad, be feels that. ;i tfrave and public injustice has been dono to officers of a corps whose proud bonst.is that thov have made at least thirty and one-third per. cent, of our Expeditionary Force fit to fipht, and having ontered 1 this protest ho' canturn with complacency to the contempbtion of the motto inscribed upon his old which reads "Es,.mato bonnm."—l am, etc.. ONE WHO SERVED. ,