TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1920, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

IPBB PIUSRB ABBOC I *TION. —-COPYRIGHT.) COMMENT BY COAL OWNERS. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 20. In connection with a. statement contained in a telegram from Wellington made a demand on the Aline Owners that the Miners’ Federation have asked for,a 25 per cent, increase of pay, Mr. William Reece (Chairman Mine Owners’ Association) who arrived from Wellington this morning, stated ho had seen the Secretary of the Coal Owners’ Association yesterday, and no notice had been received by them of any new "demand. He said the agreement was for one year. The owners were under an impression it would last for a year. FQ.UND DEAD. WELLINQTQN, Nov.. 22. Qprald Ayilliam O’Kgiie, a we}}-knowp chemist of Lambtop Quay, ;yas found dead in bed op Saturday, He complained the previous evening of feeling unwell. It is understood he suffered from heart disease,

RAILWAY SHUNTER KILLED. AUCKLAND, Nov. 21. Jo.hu Russell, a shunter, 29 years of age, ivas run over by some trucks while shunting, sustaining injuries, to which lie succumbed hi the hospital a few hours later. ; DECAYING TEETH. AUCKLAND, Nov. 19. The cabled report of a paper read at the annual meeting of the Australian Society of Dental Science, alleging that 90 per cent of dentists allowed decay to proceed, as a source of future income, was referred to to-day by Mr Nelson Mitchell, president of the New Zealand Dental Association. He said: “Itis a well known fact that the keynote of the teaching of the dental profession and practice of reputable dentists throughout the British Empire for the last 25 years has been prevention, in the interest of public health. Treatment of advanced or neglected dental caries is of such an arduous and difficult nature that members of the profession are always eager to treat the disease in its initial stages. With this object in view they are continually impressing their patients with the need of periodical examinations. Such statements as these have been heard before in connection with the lawyer who foments strife and thp medical man who keeps a patient sick for reasons of commercial gain, and it is to he hoped that public opinion .will be as little influenced by this latest bogey as the extravagant and preposterous nature of the suggestions deserve.”