A deputation from the Dunedin Dental Association waited on the Otago Hospital and Charitable Aid Board last night in connection with the question of expending any money voted for the Dental Hospital. Mr O. Davies said it was hardly necessary for him to draw attention to the appalling state of the teeth of the people of the Dominion.
In Dunedin alone 98 per cent were affected by decayed teeth. The objection of the deputation was to urge that something should be done for those who were unable to pay for attention to their teeth. Their purpose was to point out that a grant could be given in a way to do the greatest good for the greatest number.
• "Our Empire to-day has reached the parting of the ways," said Canon Garland to a New Zealand Herald representative last Saturday. "Two paths are open, one is Imperial consolidation by federation; the other despair, disarmament, and disintegration if Britain and the dominions insist on isolated grandeur, and the adherence to parish pump views, whilst the grinning gods of the Orient crawl from the teeming and gluttonous East with the knife of rapine, death, and desolation between their teeth.
I would not unduly stir the slumbers of Australasia, but I must-as all Imperialists must-sound the gong of warning, and call on every man from the hub of the Empire in London to our far-flung frontier lines to up and look around." In conclusion Canon Garland said he desired to see created in the people of Australasia a patriotic spirit, loyal to Australasia, not only for its own sake, but because it was an integral part of the British nation and Empire; a sacrificing spirit ready to bear the burden of immigration, that we might preserve our heritage for our children and retain the mastery of the Pacific, which once lost would so disturb the equilibrium of the world that the power of the British Empire would be a power shattered.
• A preliminary meeting, called by circular, was held at the residence of Mr D. H. Hastings, Richardson street, St. Kilda, last evening, to consider the question of the amalgamation of the borough of St. Kilda with the city. Besides Mr Hastings the following gentlemen were present:-Messrs D. A. Jolly, C. Ruhen, W. King, G. Hodges, W. Maddox, F. R. Brown, J. Beck, H. W. Mitchell, J. Gore, and E. Aslin. After the question had been thoroughly discussed the following resolution was carried:-"That the gentlemen present be a committee, with power to add to their number, to take the necessary steps to obtain the requisite number of signatures to a petition to be presented to the St. Kilda Council requesting that a poll be taken for the purpose of deciding whether or not the Borough of St. Kilda should be amalgamated with the City of Dunedin." - ODT, 4.10.1912
