SCHOOL DENTAL SERVICE
QUESTION OF EXTENSION MINISTER ANSWERS DISCUSSION (By Telegraph) (From “The Mail’s” Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, Goth July. Replying to a discussion in the House of Representatives this afternoon urging more expenditure cn the school dental service and an increased number of nurses to be provided the Minister of Health (the Hon. A. J. Stallworthy) said that at tho present rate of progress a school dental service would be provided right throughout the Dominion in from six to eight years including private schools. That would apply in all schools up to standard TV’. To immediately apply the service to the whole of the schools in the Dominion would be too large a programme and would require the assistance of the whole of the professional dental practitioners throughout New Zealand. It was purely a matter of finance,and so far as the financial resources of the Dominion would permit, having regard to all other claims on the Government, the utmost speed would he given to the development of the school dental service.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 27 July 1929, Page 6
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