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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10297, 4 June 1919, Page 4

THE TORTURES OF TOOTHACHE. Some .people. endure tho;. tortures" of toothache rather than eo to the' Dentist. Time was when one had good "reasons for this procrastination, but not now—if the Dentist is \V. P. Sommerville. All his work is absolutely painless, whether it be fillings, extractions, ocrowninjr. Moderate fees. Consult "TiK Careful Dentist." Molcsworth street.

A public meeting was held in Greytown to consider a proposal to secure O'Connor's Bush as a soldiers' > me morial lor Greytbwn. The resolution of a subcommittee previously set unto go into the. question, that the busb, be procured, was unanimously. and en- - thusiastically adopted, and was «n--; liixged to include the. whole area,- about 35 acres. It is' expected 'that, steps foi carrying out the resolution will • be' taken speedily.;, .....,',, ~..,;;,• '..:/..'.-.'.' The method of. photograpfiTcaJly war- : veying the earth from aeroplanes,' casually referred to by: Creneral .Seely. in introducing the .air, services, vote, will no doubt revolutionise map-mak-ing. Trigonometrical surveying is such tedious and expensive business that less than one-fourth of the land area of the globe has as yet been accurately surveyed. The maps of the other three-fourths are mere approximations or based on clever guesswork. An international conference which met in London ten years ago decided on the production of a .uniform map pf ; the world on a scale of 1 to 1,000,000, but, the possibility of finishing the job this century seemed very roinoto at the time. Now that aviators can carry out the survey work while flying over tire country to bo mapped there is no .reason Svliy the " map* should not bo finished within flic nwrt decade