Page 391 - My FlipBook

REVIEW OF DENTISTRY. 375 :

monial, or other document or writing, he shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and shall on conviction be liable to.be imprisoned
for any period not exceeding one year.
27. All informations for offences against this Act shall be
laid by the Registrar or some other person appointed by the
Board for that purpose, and all penalties when recovered shall be
paid to the Dental Board.
28. Any person registered under this Act who uses any
letters, words, or initials likely to mislead the public as to his
true qualifications shall be liable to have his name erased from
the Dental Register.
29. The fees mentioned in the Third Schedule to this Act
shall be payable, by persons applying to be registered, or obtain-
ing certificates of registration under this Act, or inspecting the
Register respectively, to the Registrar, and shall be applied by
the Board in defraying the expenses and carrying out the pro-
visions of this Act.
7
The number of dentists in New South Wales was, in April,
1893, 147.
The Dental Association of New South Wales has its Regis-
trars' office at Sidney. The officers of the association were, 1892-3
President, Alfred Burne, D. D. S.; vice-presidents, Hugh Pater-
son, M. O. S., R. D. S., and C. G. Hodgson, M. D. S., R. D. S.;
treasurer, W. Turner-Halstead, D. D. S.; secretary, H. Taylor.

NEW ZEALAND.

(BRITISH COLONY.)
.Area, 104,471 square miles. Population, 578,482.
Capital, Wellington; population, 27,833.
For forty years from the foundation of the colony, the prac-
tice of dentistry was free to any person who chose to undertake
it; but so much inconvenience was found to result from this ex-
treme liberality that, in 1880, the Legislature passed an Act (44
Vict., No. 34) prohibiting the practice or profession of the art to
any but those duly registered under its provisions.