THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL
o YIS IT TO DENTAL TKAININO St |loot.. \Y Kl. LI NO TON, October G. His Kxcelleney the (I'overnor-tielieral attended hv Lieut.-Commander Dove, ILN., and accompanied by Sir Aluui I‘omaie (Minister of Health; paid a visit to the dental training school today. ii.or.l: Jelliiw saw the muses carrying out treatment, including extinctions, and shorted the keenest interest in the school and the work that is being done there. Before leaving; be addressed the nurses in the lecture room. He referred in complimentary terms to what lie bad seen, and stressed the importance of the work upon which they were engaged. He mentioned that though New Zealand was the smallest of the Dominions, it- was leading the Empire, and perhaps the world, in what it was now doing in regard to denial hygiene in the schools. Colonel Hunter, tin* head of the training .school, thanked the (Jnvornnr(leiieral for his kind remarks. When ‘fail'd Jellicoe entered the extract ion room a child had just been given an anneal hat i- injection for an
extra: tion. Colonel Hunter told tin nurse to proceed with tin* oxtractioi which she tarried out without a murmur from tin* child.
Lord Jellicoe seemed very pleased with the fortitude of the little pnteint. lie remaiked that his children usually
got a shilling when they had to go to tin* dentist, ami that he thought this little girl deserved one too, and after the operation gave her a shilling, l’ro-
l*ably the mother will set* that it is not spent on chocolates, hut kept as a memento of New (Zealand's mast |-up'iikir Governor-General.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1924, Page 4
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266THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1924, Page 4
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