DENTAL SERVICE

Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1932, Page 4

DENTAL SERVICE

CRITICISM REFUTED. DISCIPLINARY STAXDARD. WELLINGTON, February 3. Criticism of the school dental service by a member of the Canterbury Education Board has received fairly wide publicity, and has provoked an official answer from the Executve of the New Zealand Dental Association, which has no official coi'itro] over the service, bub is representative of tile dental proies= ~ion of .the Dominion, The association’s prea'deiit, Mr D. V. Donaldson, states that he and the Cen« trul Executive had read with much suvprise the statement by a member of the -Canterbury Education Board that “the school dental nurse s were a law unto themselves, and -that it was time A they were brought under control.” * “The 'New Zealand Dental Association -~ is keenly interested in the 'work of the school dental -service,” remarked Mr Donaldson, ‘-and is quite satisfied that the discipVAre .is of a very high standard. In the opinion of the executive, •insinuations that th? service is administered in a lax .manner are entirely unwarranted, and we feel that- it is due to the .service and the parents whose children are under its cure that unjustifiable statements of tb's nature should not be allowed to pass unchallenged.”