DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

UNREGISTERED DENTAL. PRACTITIONERS.

CONVICTIONS AT AUCKLAND

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.! AUCKLAND, December 19.

Reserved judgment was given by Air F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court in the cases brought by H. D. Crump, secretary of the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Dental Association against unregistered dentists.

11. Ran was fined £5 Is and costs for practising dentistry when not being registered a.s a dentist under the Dentistry Act. 1908. For a. similar offence Sidney .J. Hall was fined £2 and costs. A fine of a. like amount was imposed on Hall in respect to a further charge of holding himself out by implication a.s being prepared to practice dentistry in that lie used the words “dental technician.”

The amount of the penalty in the case of Rail was increased in order that an appeal might lie lodged. Tn referring to Hall’s case Mr Hunt said it was clear from the evidence that defendant used the word “technician” to delude the public into thinking that he was a. qualifed dentist. The Act was designed for the purpose of protecting the public and also young men who had to pursue lengthy studies to qualify as dentists.

PRISONERS SENTENCED

DUNEDIN, December 20. Prisoners sentenced by Judge Kennedy : Gordon Jenkins, breaking, entering and theft by night from a shop, two years Borstal. Samson Robert Clelaind, breaking, entering and theft from a dwelling by day and theft from a shop by night two years reformative. Percy Robert Halkett, on similar charges, three years probation.

FOUND DEAD

-MASTER,TON, December 22. A middle aged man, Arthur Charles Gunter, a Borough Council employee, was found dead last evening in a whare which he occupied. Gunter was lying on bis bed fully dressed and a gas fire was turned on, but not lit.

CROSSING ESCAPE,

CHRISTCHURCH, December 22

Mrs Downing of Templeton had a narrow (escape at Sockburn railway crossing early yesterday morning. She was driving a horse and . cart towards Christchurch on the main road and failed to notice an approaching goods train from Springfield. The engine killed the horse, smashed the cart and tipped Airs Downing out on the bitumen road. She was later admitted to the hospital with nothing more than a scalp wound.

FALL FROM A TREE

BLENHEIM, December 22,

Lewin Bacon, 21, fell 30 feet from a tree when gathering mistletoe in a bush at Onamalutu on Saturday afternoon. As a result he sustained a broken left wrist, bone in the right wrist fractured and the wrist badly sprained.

THEFT OF CYCLE

CHRISTGHURCH, December 1 22

Philip Gordon Sutherland, 2(3, a labourer was sentenced to three months hard by Magistrate Mosley on charges of stealing a bicycle the property of Adam Brookie and then punching the owner when Brockie recognised his machine and claimed it. r Lhe police said accused was out on license from Paparua.

CLAMOR OF WORKLESS

CHRISTCHURCH, December 22.

Because work for three hundred men which had been promised did not eventuate, an ugly situation developed at the Government Unemployment Bureau this morning. For over two hours, hundreds of men who had assembled in the yard at the back of the office blocked all exist and would not allow the staff of the Bureau to leave the premises. Numbers of them rushed angrily and asked the reasons for the delay. Order was eventually restored when an official said a telegram from Wellington was inspected in the afternoon.

ATTEMPTED S UICIDE

CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 22

Arthur Francis Munton, 20, a labourer, walked into the public hospital on Saturday night and informed the house surgeon that he was going to commit suicide. First he cut his wrist, with a knife, while the doctor’s back was turned and when this was not successful lie took drink Imm a bottle in the surgery marked 75 per cent alcohol. A stomach pump and emetic brought him back to normal. Munton is an Australian and wa s charged in the Magistrate’s Court this morning with attempted suicide.

Magistrate Mosley in senteneng accused to six months hard labour said: you have a bad record. 1 am afraid, to use a. eolloquilism, you have been swinging the lead.