PROPOSED DENTAL SCHOOL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8024, 10 January 1906, Page 2

PROPOSED DENTAL SCHOOL.

PEIi I'ltliSS ASSOCIATION, DrNEDiN, January 8. At a in. l 'ling of the Council of Otago University, a report was submitted by a suh-coinmiltec appointed Lo consider tlie question of the proposed dental school. 'lhe report statesrt may be necessary to make some modification in lecture courses to meet the special need of dental students, hilt this cannot be determined till the New Zealand University has reconsidered the condition s for dental degrees, ft jj |ji» noeossarv to add dental surgery, mechanics, metallurgy and operative dentistry, and to provide litis there would be required a principal, who would also leeture, at a salary of, say, £SOO per annum ; a mechanic at, say, .U2i 10; and a boy at ,£;!0. A committee of dentists has given an assurance that the dentists would llnd six honorary dental surgeons aud necessary extra lectures. They lyill also find .CUM) for a dental hospital. It is believed the Government will give the usual subsidy of 21s ill the .CI.. It seems a matter of urgency I hat provision he made immediately for the training 0 f dental students,

The committee recommends that the whole nutter be placed before the Government, and that ii. be asked to advise lVli-imout to provide a subsidv of 21s in the CI up to C1..">00 ol local contributions. an I suNi'ient annual grants to meet the necessary yearly expenditure ; that a site lie provided for a dental hospital; that the Xeiv Zealand University be urge..! to. he-consider the provision for .U-iifil degree at lhe earliest opportunity, and generally to got the de- ! pari went in working airier, The luport vvh adopted, and a committee. selected to arrange a dental iii"Tieuluni,