Gum Digger

NZ Truth, Issue 1179, 5 July 1928, Page 6

Gum Digger

U tUST open the mouth a wee bit I wider. ... A little wider v - still. . . . That's right. . . r /No; it's not going to hurt you. . . • Only a slight tenderness, perhaps. I'm miles away from the nerve." And so, with soft, purring intonation and wbrds of comfort like these, does William G. Pountney, of Hamilton, reassure the timid patient who

shrinks from dental arm and forceps. It is eighteen years sinoe W.G.P. tor© hirnseif reluctantly away from Auckland and elevated his shingle at Hamilton. But he "bullded better than he knew." -'■•■"' Hamilton had just decided to throw off the thraldom of villagedom and have a bid for the Provincial Town Stakes. And there were other factors operating m his favor. A prominent fellowcraftsman — Hon. J. A.

Toung, then better known as Alicic — was becoming increasingly engrossed with politics, and would therefore have less time for. molar exploration. The opportunity looked pretty good to the discerning eye bf young Bill. The swift and silent Waikato has carried much water to the sea since then and Pountney has been carried just as surely tb the crest of achievement and success.