Dental Clinic Building, Willis Street, Wellington

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The site of the former Wellington Dental Clinic was once that of the Te Aro School. The school building, erected in 1880, was demolished in 1933 and the school moved to the site of the old Terrace Gaol. Government Architect J. T. Mair designed the Dominion Training School for Dental Nurses in 1937 and construction began the following year. The building was opened in 1940 by the Governor General's wife Lady Galway. Speakers at the opening ceremony included the Prime Minister Michael Savage and it was the proud hope of the government that, by 1941, with the trainees provided by the new facility, every child under 12 would be treated by the School Dental Service. In 2004 the building was redesigned as Augusta Apartments. More details on the building can be found here http://wellington.govt.nz/services/heritage/details.php?id=314&m=search&street=Willis

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Image: Unidentified child at the Wellington Dental Clinic in Willis Street

livening Post" Photo. Lady Galivay and the Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser, leaving Wellington's new dental clinic in Willis Street yesterday afternoon ...

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Image: A perspective drawing of the new dental, clinic of four storeys, and including a training school for dental nurses, which is to be built by the Government on the old Te Aro School.site in Upper Willis Street. The building, will be the first of its kind in New Zealand. (Evening Post, 15 July 1937)

A perspective drawing of the new dental, clinic of four storeys, and including a training school for dental nurses, which is to be built by the Gov...

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Building activity in the-city is shown in these pictures. On the left is . the new Post and Telegraph D epartment building,; on the corner of Herd ...

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Image: Evening Post" Photo, Scene outside the railivay station this morning as- a large crowd watched the departure of the second echelon for Trentham Mobilisation Camp. "Evening Post" Photo. A building, nearly complete, in Upper Willis Street, to be used by tlie Health authorities as a dental clinic. (Evening Post, 12 January 1940)

Evening Post" Photo, Scene outside the railivay station this morning as- a large crowd watched the departure of the second echelon for Trentham Mob...

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Dental Clinic Building, Willis Street, Wellington

Unidentified child at the Wellington Dental Clinic in Willis Street

Te Aro School under demolition to make way for the Children's Dental Clinic, Willis Street, Wellington

Interior view of the Children's Dental Clinic, Wellington

DENTAL CLINIC (Evening Post, 14 May 1940)

NEW DENTAL CLINIC (Evening Post, 26 August 1938)

NEW DENTAL CLINIC (Evening Post, 29 April 1938)

Upper Willis Street, Wellington, New Zealand

livening Post" Photo. Lady Galivay and the Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser, leaving Wellington's new dental clinic in Willis Street yesterday afternoon ...

A perspective drawing of the new dental, clinic of four storeys, and including a training school for dental nurses, which is to be built by the Gov...

Building activity in the-city is shown in these pictures. On the left is . the new Post and Telegraph D epartment building,; on the corner of Herd ...

Evening Post" Photo, Scene outside the railivay station this morning as- a large crowd watched the departure of the second echelon for Trentham Mob...