The American Dental Company (Neville Speechly, proprietor), Toneycliffe and Carey's Buildings, corner of Gloucester and Colombo Streets, Christchurch. Branch at Timaru. This business was established on the 9th of November, 1900. It occupies four rooms on the first floor of the building overlooking Gloucester Street. All the apartments are neatly arranged and richly furnished, and the surgery contains a complete outfit of the most modern American dental appliances.

Mr. Neville Speechly, the Proprietor, is a native of Geraldine, Canterbury. He was educated at the Christchurch Boys' High School, and subsequently apprenticed to Mr. Atkinson, now of the firm of Messrs Neeley and Atkinson, surgeon dentists. On taking his diploma as a qualified dentist, in February, 1900, at the Otago University, he left the firm with which he had been apprenticed, to establish a branch for the London Dental Institute at Wanganui. After successfully accomplishing this task, he sailed for America and England, where, travelling through the chief centres, he visited the premises of some of the leading English and American dentists, with a view to becoming thoroughly conversant with the higher branches and most modern methods in the art of dentistry. Mr. Speechly returned to Christchurch in November, 1900, and shortly afterwards established the business he now so successfully conducts.

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Mr. N. Speechly.

Bain, John Edward, Surgeon Dentist, Wardell's Buildings, Cashel Street, Christchurch. Telephone 956.

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Mr. J. E. Bain.

Button And Purdie (Horace E. Button and William H. Purdie), Surgeon Dentists, 173 Colombo Street, Christchurch. This business was established in 1870 by Mr. Henry W. Purdie, who conducted it until 1899, when he retired and sold the practice to Mr. Button. A year later the present partnership was formed.

Mr. Horace E. Button, Partner in the firm, was born at Doyleston. On leaving school he was apprenticed to Mr. H. W. Purdie, with whom he was associated for twelve years.

Mr. William H. Purdie, a son of the founder of this business, was born in 1877, and educated at private schools and at the Christchurch Boys' High School. After gaining some commercial experience in the office of Messrs Whitecombe and Tombs, Ltd., he served an apprenticeship to his father, and in 1900 became a partner in the present firm.

Mr. Henry Wight Purdie was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and arrived at Port Chalmers in the ship “Moultan,” with his father, the late Dr. Purdie, M.D., on Christmas Day, 1849. He received his education at public and private schools and by private tutor. After spending a short time in the first steamboat office in Dunedin, he was occupied for a few years as working manager of the Cottesbrooke station, of which his father was part owner. When the great commercial crisis which ruined so many runholders in the early sixties occurred, this station was sold, and Mr. Purdie went to Melbourne, but after remaining there for several months, he returned to Dunedin in 1867. Having resolved to adopt a profession, his natural love for mechanics led him to select dentistry, and he served his time with the late Mr. Alfred Boot, well-known for many years as the leading dentist in Dunedin. After completing his studies. Mr. Purdie removed to Christchurch and began to practice on his own account in 1870. In 1872, he married the eldest daughter of the Hon. T. Dick, formerly Superintendent of Otago, and afterwards Colonial Secretary in the Hall, Whitaker, and Atkinson Ministries.

Mr. H. W. Purdie.

Fountain, John Henry, Dentist, Luck's Buildings, Gloucester Street, Christchurch. Mr. Fountain is the eldest son of Mr. R. E. Fountain, Auckland, for many years Under-Secretary of Justice, and was born in Wellington in 1865. He received his education at the Terrace School, Wellington, finishing at the Auckland College, and was articled to Mr. A. W. Chatfield, dentist, Auckland, in 1882. He has been assistant to various dentists in the colony, including Mr. Purdie, senior, and Mr. James Irvine, of Christchurch. In 1892 Mr. fountain began practice on his own account at 234 High Street, over the shop of Mr. F. Biggs, chemist. He afterwards removed to Messrs Toneycliffe and Carey's Buildings, where he acquired a very large practice, but had to leave it on account of Mrs Fountain's ill-health. He, however, returned to Christchurch in March, 1901, and established the Dental Chambers, where he has one of the most up-to-date dental surgeries in the colony; his laboratory is fitted with all the latest dental appliances known to modern dentistry. His surgery and other rooms are well-lighted, and elegantly furnished in an up-to-date style.

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Mr. J. H. Fountain.

Irvine, James, Surgeon and Mechanical Dentist, 222 High Street, Christchurch, Mr. Irvine was born in Londonderry in 1844, and brought up to the dental profession, in the employment of the late Mr. David Gillies. He came to Canterbury in 1874 by the ship “Geraldine Paget,” and two years later established his present practice in Christchurch. Mr. Irvine's surgery is situated on the first floor of a two-storey brick building in High Street, and is fitted up with the latest and most complete apparatus.

The London Dental Institute, Christchurch Branch, 216 High Street. Telephone 841. This business was established in 1898. It occupies five well-appointed apartments. The waiting-room, which is entered by a corridor from the street, is neatly arranged and supplied with every convenience and comfort for waiting patients; and the two surgeries contain a complete outfit of the most modern dental appliances. The ladies' dressing-room and the laboratory, both welllighted and convenient apartments, complete the premises. Besides the ordinary fittings page 252 and fillings connected with dental surgery, this firm makes a special feature of goldcrowning and bridging, and has long been renowned for the general excellence of its work.

Mr. Sydney Herbert Jones, Assistant Dentist to the London Dental Institute, was born at Caversham, Dunedin, in 1880, and is a son of Mr. H. S. Jones, a wellknown accountant of that city. He was educated at the Caversham public school, and it an early age entered the office of Dr. Milne, barrister and solicitor, with whom he remained twelve months, gaining some valuable business experience. He was then apprenticed to Mr. T. J. Collins, dental surgeon, Dunedin, and after three years' service he gained his diploma as a duly qualified dentist, at the early age of eighteen years. His experience of practical dentistry was widened by a further stay of twelve months with Mr Collins. In July, 1900, Mr. Jones accepted an appointment as assistant dentist to Mr. K. C. Morpeth, of Wellington, but after being in that position four months, he resigned it to take up his present duties as assistant dentist to the London Dental Institute. In February, 1901, three months after gaining his present appointment, he was promoted to the post of manager of the Dunedin branch of the London Institute, but, on account of the southern climate not suiting his health, he was compelled, after only a brief term, to return to Christchurch.

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Mr. S. H. Jones.

Muridge, Thomas, D.D.S., Dental Surgeon, 218 High Street, Christchurch. Private residence, next St. Mark's, Opawa. The subject of this notice was educated in one of the large London classical schools, and studied for his profession at the College of Dental Surgery, Pennsylvania, United States of America, where he graduated doctor of dental surgery in 1869. Mr. Muridge practised in North and South America and was subsequently eight years in business in Brooke Street, Grosvenor Square, London W. During the time he was in England Mr. Muridge became a member of the Odontological Society of Great Britain. He was compelled to retire from the practice of his profession in London on account of ill-health, came out to the Colonies and resided for some time in Victoria, where he became a member of the first dental board of that Colony. Mr. Muridge came to New Zealand in 1890 and has practised his profession in Christchurch since that time.

Myers, S. and Co., (Ascher Lawrence Myers and David Edwin Wood), Dental Surgeons, Corner of Cashel and High Streets, Christchurch. This business was established in 1888, as a branch, of the firm of Messrs S. Myers and Co., of Dunedin.

Neeley And Atkinson (Nathaniel A. Neeley, and J. S. Atkinson), Surgeon Dentists, 200 Hereford Street, Christchurch.

Mr. John Staines Atkinson, Partner in the firm of Neeley and Atkinson, was born in New Plymouth in 1869, and educated at Wellington College and Wanganui Collegiate School. He studied for his profession under Mr. Arthur Hoby, of Wellington, and qualified by examination in 1890. For three years Mr. Atkinson was a junior partner with Mr. Hoby, and came in 1894 to Christchurch, where he established a practice. Subsequently he joined Dr. Neeley in establishing the present firm.

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Mr. J. S. Atkinson.

The New Zealand Consolidated Dental Company, Limited; Christchurch Branch, 129 Cashel Street. P.O. Box 392. Telephone 855. Bankers, National Bank of New Zealand. Registered Cable Address, “Dental.” Previous to 1897 all dental appliances and requirements for the profession in this colony had been imported by various private dental firms, whence they were purchased as required by members of the profession. In that year, however, the dentists, as a body, determined to organise a company, with its shareholders confined to members of the profession, for the purpose of importing dental requisites. It was in this way that the present prosperous company, which has incorporated several of the chief dental importing businesses formerly existing in the colony, came into existence. The company's headquarters are in Victoria. Street, Wellington; the Auckland branch was established simultaneously with the head office, and the Christchurch and Dunedin branches were established in the following year. The firm is the sole New Zealand representative of many of the chief English and American manufacturing companies, and at each of its branches, as well as at the headquarters, it carries a large and well assorted stock of the most modern dental requisites. The Christchurch branch occupies the ground floor of a two-storey brick building, facing Cashel Street, in a well chosen part of the city. There are two neatly arranged apartments; the general business department takes up the whole of the fore-part of the floor, and the manager's office stands immediately to the rear. Under capable and popular management, this branch has succeeded in gaining the patronage of most of the local dentists.

Mr. Heaton Rhodes Parkinson, who was appointed Manager of the Chrstchurch Branch of the New Zealand Consolidated Dental Company, Limited, shortly after the establishment of the business, is a dentist by profession. He was apprenticed at an early age to Messrs Thompson and Turrell, of High Street, Christchurch, for five years, and shortly afterwards he accepted his present appointment. Mr. Parkinson is a native of Christchurch, and a son of the late Mr T. H. Parkinson, runholder, of Kaituna. He was born in 1872, and as a child was sent to Wanganui, where he studied at the local college. Mr. Parkinson takes considerable interest in hunting. He is a member of the Christchurch Hunt Club, and at his private estate, known at “Matlock Bank,” Riccarton, he keeps a number of horses, and a complete equipment for the successful prosecution of the sport. In February, 1902, Mr. Parkinson returned from a tour through England, the Continent of Europe, and America. During his absence he visited the chief dental institutions in the world's largest cities, and by so doing gained a knowledge which must prove of the greatest advantage to his firm.

Roberts, H. And W. (Henry and Williams Roberts), Dentists, 190 Cashel Street, Christchurch, and 187a Colombo Street. The firm's practice was originally established in 1883, and has been carried on by it since 1891. Both partners are Cornishmen by birth. Having passed the dental surgeon's examinations in the Colony, they obtained registration in New Zealand, and began the practice of their profession.

St. John, Frank F., Surgeon Dentist, Beath's Buildings, Cashel Street, Christchurch Mr. St. John was born in Nelson, in 1880, and is a son of Mr. Edward F. St. John, accountant of that city. After completing his school course he studied for the dental profession, and served a pupilage with Messrs Deck and Levien, who were both students of the Dental Hospitals of London (England) and are now practising in Nelson. He remained with the firm altogether for five years, and gained his diploma at Wellington in June, 1900. So well recognised was his professional skill, that he was engaged to act as locum tenens for Mr. Rawson, a wellknown dentist of Wellington, during that gentleman's visit to England in 1901. Mr. St. John commenced the practice of his profession in Christchurch in July, 1902.

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Mr. F. St. John.

Seymour And Son (Stanley Briscoe Seymour and Charles William Seymour), Surgeon Dentists, Colombo Street, Christchurch. Mr. Seymour established this practice in 1869.

Talbot, Horace Norman, Dental Surgeon, 11 Cathedral Square, Christchurch. Telephone 937. This business was established by Mr. Talbot in June, 1900.

Thompson And Turrell, (Frederick William Thompson and Edward Marten Turrell), Surgeon and Mechanical Dentists, 218 High Street, Christchurch. Telephone 538. Bankers, National Bank of New Zealand. Private residences: Mr. Thompson, Papanul Road; Mr. Turrell, Papanul. The practice was established by Dr. Neeley in 1886, and purchased by Mr. Thompson four years later. Mr. Turrell joined the firm as junior partner in 1895. Mr. Thompson was born in Godmanchester. Huntingdonshire, England, in 1857, and was educated at Bury St. Edmunds' and Liverpool College. He studied dentistry with Mr. H. C. Wilson, of Napier, after his arrival in the Colony in 1877, and successfully passed his examination in 1884. In that year he established himself in practice in Invercargill, where he purchased an old established business, subsequently removing to Christchurch and taking over the present practice. It may be mentioned that Mr. Thompson has been favoured with the patronage of. His Excellency the Governor (the Earl of Ranfurly) and family. He was married in 1884 to the second daughter of Captain Alex. Kennedy, of Napier.

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Mr. F. W. Thompson.