LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 53, 24 October 1931, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

iVirways Activity . . The Rotorua Aifway plane, pilotec by Captain Hewitt, arrived at Rotorua with two passengers. The plant has been thoroughly overhauled and is in excellent working order. The plane will be available'for passengei flights from now onwards. "Better Than I Can" "I do not thlnk I need say anything about the work of our dental nurses. It has been highly eulogised by the dental profession. All I can say is that these girls can do the job, with its limitations far better than I can *do it and my Director says they can do it far better than he can," said Mr. R.'D. Elliott, senior inspecting dental officer, when outlining to a meeting of Rotorua Scljool Committee representatives on Thursday night, the scope of the present school dental service. Take Time. "We want to bring all the children in New Zealand under treatment but our service" must develop hy the slow process of evolution. Our primI ary school system was not built up in 10 or 20 or 30 years, and the bailding up of a dental service will also take time," said Mr. R. D. Elliott, senior inspecting dental officer at Thursday night's meeting in .connection with the establishment of a dental clinic in Rotorua. Unkind and Bitter Things "Whatever they may say about civil servants, and they say many unkind, bitter, and untrue things, we, in our Department are efficient," said Mr. R. D. Elliott, senior, inspecting dental officer of the Department of Health, in an address to Rotorua School Committees on Thursday, in connection 'with the establishment of a dental clinic here.

Spoon-Feeding ? "I think we are too much spoonfed by the Government," said Mr. D. M. McMillan, of Mamaku, at a meeting in connection with the establishi ment of a dental clinic in Rotorua on I Thursday night. "It is coming to this that we will soon expect the Government to feed and dress us." | Band In Gardens The Municipal Band under Lieut. E. Tregilgas, will play in the Government Gardens at 3 o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Speedways Opening l With . some of New Zealand's crack j riders on the track, a first class = ! speedway, a band in attendance, and j fine weather promised, the opening of Rotorua Speedways on Labour Day promises one of the most thrilling af- _ I ternoon's sport yet staged in this eentre. The lure of the speedway has proved the biggest box-office attraction of recent yars, and wherever racing traeks have been estahlished, record crowds have fiocked to watch the speed kings in action. Rotorua is [ fortunate in having an introduction ; to the sport under such auspicious , ' conditions. The Mayor (Mr. T. Jack- . son), will perform the official open- , lng. ' MANCHESTER UNlTY. i ' ' 1 The Loyal Rotorua Lodge No. 7518, ' | M.U.I.O.O.F., met in the Druids' Hall on Tuesday evening. The District ■ Grandmaster, Bro. R. T. Scott, and ■ Bro. Davis, of Morrinsville, visited the lodge, both being accorded the honours of the Order. Bro. Scott gave an interesting and instructional address on district work. After the : lodge meeting, games and eards completed a most enjoyable evening. Owing to an error, this meeting was described in onr Wednesday's issue as a Druids' Lodge gathering. "CARRY ON." 1 "There is a tendency nowadays to heap everything upon the teacher. I think we will soon reach the stage where, when a child is born, the parents will just take it along to the teacher and say 'Here you are; earry on'." remarked Mr. R. D. Elliott, senior inspecting dental officer during a meeting in Rotorua on Thursday night. Spend-in-England Gesture. British newspapers have agreed temporarily to suspend foreign tourist advertisements as a contribution to the "Spend in England" movement. The Government is urging the public to refrain from foreign travel. British tourist resorts are increasing their advertisements, while the shipping companies are conducting a "Maintain the Pound" compaign and are appealing to the public to travel in British ships, thus helping the nation and deriving the benefit of a 20s £. Sunshine Spenders. "There is a different spirit among shoppers when the sun is shining," said a Wanganui retailer, "and people spend more freely than when the weather is dull." The retailer said that sunny weather creates a more opti- , mistic f eeling among the public, while on a dull day shoppers seem to spend grudgingly, if at all." "We want a spell of this fine weather to help business- along. When the weather glass soars , up goes the trade barometer, too," he said.