Dental.

ARMSTRONG AND CO

FULTON, W. H., AND CO

HEWITT. JOHN.

MYERS, S., AND CO

THOMAS, WILLIAM EDWARD

ARMSTRONG AND CO (John Philip Armstrong, Frank Armstrong, and Grace Arm­strong), Surgeons and Mechanical Dentists, Colonial Mutual Buildings (first floor), Corner of Princess and High Streets, Dunedin. Telephone, 604. Bankers: Bank of New South Wales. Private residences, Caversham. Mr. J. P. Armstrong, who established the practice in 1861, was born in 1828 and was educated in Wexford, Ireland. Brought up to the business of a chemist, he joined Mr. Brooks of Dublin, with whom he continued till 1848, when he went to America for two years. Soon after his return from the States, Mr. Armstrong came out to Victoria, where he had ten years’ experience on the goldfields, and was in practice as a dentist, having studied the profession in Dublin. He settled in Dunedin in 1861, and claims to have been the first dentist in the city. Mr. Frank Arm­strong, who was born in Dunedin in 1868, learned the business under his father, was registered in 1888, and practised for some time in Oamaru. Miss Grace Armstrong passed her examination in 1894, and became associated in the business of Messrs. Arm­strong and Co. in the following year, when her brother also joined the firm. The rooms occupied are well adapted for the profession, comprising three operating rooms and separate work-rooms, as well as an elegantly furnished waiting-room. Messrs. Armstrong and Co. have all the latest appliances for administering gas to patients, with a special chloroform room. Mr. Armstrong senior, was prominent as a politician in the early days, and held a scat on the provincial council of Otago for eight years. As a Mason, he was initiated in Lodge St. John in 1851, and was one of the founders of Lodge Dunedin.

FULTON, W. H., AND CO., LTD. (Mr. W. H. Fulton, managing director), Importers of Dental Materials and Requisites, Corner of High and Manse Streets, Dunedin. P.O. Box, 187. Bankers, Bank of New Zealand. Private residence of managing director. Mornington. Established in February, 1895 by Mr. W. H. Fulton, this company was incorporated as a limited liability company (under the “Companies Act” 1882), in 1897. The company caters specially for the requirements of dentists. Large importations come regularly to hand from Great Britain and America—the latest dental appliances of all kinds being held in stock. Messrs. Fulton and Co., Ltd., are in a position, at short notice, to completely equip a dentist’s establishment with the most modern plant including:— portable chairs, all contrivances for ad­ministering gas and instruments of every kind needed. A catalogue of the various lines held in stock is revised periodically by Messrs. Fulton and Co., and will be for­warded on application. Among the articles stocked by the Co.. the following may be named:—amalgams of all kinds, blowpipes, burnishers, burrs and drills, Bunsen burners, clamps, clamp and other forceps, daltonware goods, instruments of all varieties, dental engines, files and flasks, hot air syringes. Hindostan stones, instantaneous water heaters, brushes, mandels, month mirrors, dental rubbers, sandpaper discs, spirit lamps, dental alloys, glass slabs, gold springs, soldering instruments, swivels, etc. The business of Messrs. Fulton and Co., Ltd., extends to all parts of the Colony, which arc regularly visited by the managing director. Mr. Fulton, who was born in Devonshire, was educated at Downside College, near Bath. He spent sometime in a stock broker’s office in London, and came to New Zealand via Australia in 1886. After spending some years in a mercantile office in Wellington, Mr. Fulton settled in Dunedin, establishing the above business as already mentioned. He has shown his interest in educational matters by serving on the St. Leonard’s School Committee, of which he became chair­man. Mr. Fulton was married in September, 1891, to a daughter of Mr. John Blundell, of the firm of Blundell Bros., proprietors of the “Evening Post,” Wellington, and has a son and a daughter.

HEWITT. JOHN. Surgeon and Mechanical Dentist, Parley’s Hall, Princes Street, Dun­edin. Private residence, Montpellier. Mr. Hewitt was born in London in 1835 and was educated in Edinburgh, where he studied for his profession, serving a term of indentures to a dental surgeon. He left his native land in December. 1854, arriving in Melbourne in 1855 where he was for eight years engaged in the jewellery business, and left in 1863. for Port Chalmers. After settling in Dunedin, he was for some six years employed in the jewellery  business, but in 1878 he decided to establish his present practice, and has since occupied premises in Farley’s Hall, his surgery being well appointed and fitted with every needful accessory

MYERS, S., AND CO. (Septimus Myers and Ascher Myers), Surgeons and Mechanical Dentists, Dunedin Dental Surgery, Octagon, Dunedin. Telephone, 521. Bankers: National Hank of New Zealand. Private residence, North East Valley. Branch at High Street, Christchurch. Mr. S. Myers has long been well known in Dunedin as the senior and resident partner of the firm, and as a member of the dental board of examiners of New Zealand. He personally conducts the business of the Dunedin surgery and is assisted by a competent staff. The Christchurch practice is under the care of his brother, Mr. Ascher Myers. During an ex­tended residence in Dunedin Mr. S. Myers has taken a prominent part in public affairs. He was mayor of the North East Valley borough for five years and for several years was chairman of the local school committee. When the schools conference sat in Dunedin some years ago, Mr. Myers was elected chairman for the session. He has been a member of the licensing bench for a long time, and is a trustee of the Dunedin hospital. Fond of volunteering, he holds the rank of captain of the North Dunedin rifles, and as a sportsman is president of the North End boating club, Tahuna Park trotting club, National coursing club of New Zealand, vice-president of the Otago cycling club and of the Dunedin dog and poultry society, besides being a member of several other bodies. Mr. Myers is a member of the Masonic Order, was two years master of Lodge No. 662. S.C., and is past grand treasurer of the Otago and South­land District Grand Lodge.

THOMAS, WILLIAM EDWARD, Surgeon-Dentist, London Dental Institute, Government Insurance Buildings, Princes Street, Dunedin. Telephone, 760. Head establishment: next Milne and Choyce, Queen Street, Auckland. Bankers: Bank of Australasia. Branch, Thames. The London dental institute was first established in New Zealand in Auckland in 1896 by Mr. W. E. Thomas, the Dunedin business being opened in 1897. Mr. Thomas was educated at Horton College, Tasmania, and studied for his profession under one of the leading doctors of the Great Northern hospital, London. The London dental institute in Princes Street, Dunedin, occupies five rooms, three of which are on the ground floor and one on the first floor, the work-room being in the basement of the building. The apartments are luxuriously furnished, and all the latest appliances used in the profession are in evidence.

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