DUNEDIN DENTAL SCHOOL

Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1924, Page 4

DUNEDIN DENTAL SCHOOL

Rlil’OßT OF (.OMMIT’I : i: OF FXQI'JK'. . WELLINGTON, daminiy 2d’ It is slated that developments that were somewhat unexpected have arisen i■. connect 101 l with the oeutal school at Dunedin. !i will lie remembered !'• at in October Ins! when • MitiisU" ..f Ed i vat ion wi.s ; n D"ccdin ; lie was Pie -ed by the OF go L'niversily C.ntuol to erect a m. >\ d. ie d school nt, if ■ -in-. ( uhinjt a fie (wards i ,j!!-.:doc ! tig meter and agreed to maki. a grant ol £’.T»,Of!U. subject to ■lhi; eppi'jv.d O the plan- and certain oi her ( audit lour. I ■ node!" toed that Sir Don.ild .McGeviu ami l.)r Wylie, who had been appointed a.s a I'omniissiou of Enquiry into the medical .school and its necessities a few months Indore, recommended Hull ihe vacated part of lh,. urn steal .-i.'hool < uslil he if d a< a denial s-hool. The Minister was. under iho * * ciivu;nsi..nc"'s. force:! m reconsider the qiie-'tion of the proposed graul for a new dental school. lb’, however, promised to set up a Pepin tincnial Commitli’e comi'ding ol Dr. Marsden (Assistant-Director of Education', .Mr T. Iliintcr (Piiedor of Lh.j School Denial Hygiene). .Mr I. Savage (Architect of the llopai tmentb

and a niimince of the Xew Zealand Dental As,social ion. l-’or the last menl is.iK‘d | osiiiiin., Mr .1. X. RNhwortli. a past president of the Association, was elio-en. The committee visited Dunedin ami took the cviilen-e of about a dow*n witnesses. !l instated that they made a very careful examination ol tin present dental school and ol the work being dene there. They also examined the medical school buildings that are to lie vacated when the giant ( f £BO.OOO is expended on the school. The Comiuiiiee was then invited by U'o Auckland University Council In take evidence on (he proposal that a dental .school should he established in the northern city. The Acting-Minis-ter of Education (the Hon. 0. -Anderson) enlarged the scope of the committee to enable it to proceed to Auckland. 'this in due course it did, and took evidence in the northern city.

li is understood that the report of this committee lias now neon dratted, and that it contains some exceedingly important observations and recommendations.

Asked if he could make the report public, the Minister of Education, said he could not do .so yet. as Tie wished first to send copies of ii to the Otago 1 Diversity Council and iho Auckland Council, as well as to tlm Senate. for consideration next month.

One point that tin? committee Genii: with was the cost and equipment of the proposed new dental school, and a correspondent says tlicv find that instead ol f. 20.000 (the amount of the proposed grant), it will cost almost double that. Apparently as the result of the further information that has been elicited the whole question will have to be reconsidered by the University authorities and hv Cabinet.