HEALTH WEEK.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19757, 23 October 1929, Page 6

HEALTH WEEK.

MEETING OF EXECUTIVE. The Health Week executive met yesterday afternoon, Dr. H. T. J. Thacker presiding. The chairman said that everything relating to Health Week had been carried out without a hitch, and he desired to thank all who had taken an active part in carrying out the arrangements. The committee thanked Mr Neville (Town Clerk) and the City Council for the assistance given with the distribution of milk and apples. Evidence of the influence of Health Week was given by the number of people who had spoken to him over the telephone on health matters. One enquiry had been regarding sun-bathing, and he had remarked that a sun bath did not involve letting the sun blaze on the body; the essential thing was sunlight and such a sunbath could be taken at any time that the sun was shining. A person could get a sufficiency of sunlight in ten minutes. Another evidence was the fact that bakers were baking wholemeal bread, as distinct from brown bread.

Mr R. Wallwork, Director of the School of Art, wrote forwarding thirteen Health Week posters, the work of junior students, and stating that Dr. Chilton had reviewed them with the writer relative to the awarding of preferences. The first prize had been awarded to Dorothy Caverhill, and the second to Lily Wotton. The headmaster of the Victory Sehodl, St. Albans, wrote in appreciation of the interesting character and high educational value of the health films.

Mr R. Stillwell submitted a statement of the concert and pageant which showed a balance to credit of £8 0s lid. Mr Stillwell and his helpers were accorded a vote of thanks. The chairman said Mr Stillwell had suggested that there should be a big pageant next year. The idea was to have a number of local (or district) pageants which would culminate in a monster pageant. He thought that a good subject would be the arrival of the First Four Ships. Mr J. W. Crampton said the Dress Reform League desired to carry on after Health Week finished, and one suggestion was to institute health rambles. Colonel F. W. W. Dawson said there was quite a number of appropriate subjects for a pageant, such as the Plagues of Egypt, the Great Plague of London, and a Plunket pageant. On his motion, Mr Gladstone Hill was accorded a vote of thanks and was elected a member of the executive. Votes of thanks also were aecorded Sir Truby King and Mrs Cecil Wood, and letters conveying the committee's thanks are to be sent to D.r. Gunson (Auckland) and Professor C. E. Hercus (Dunedin). , On the motion of Colonel Dawson, it was resolved that, through the Minister for Health, the attention of the Minister for Education be drawn to the value of health and educational films associated with lectures through loud speakers, and that it be a recommendation that this form of instruction be more widely used.

On the chairman's motion, it was resolved to ask the Prime Minister, the Minister for Health, and the Minister for Education to see that a percentage of health and educational films be shown in every theatre in the Dominion.

The Eev. A. M. Xiblock, the Dairymen's Association, the newspapers, and the secretary of the committee, Mr X. Ifitchens, were accorded votes of thanks.

Mr Crampton moved a vote of thanks to the chairman.

Colonel Dawson, in seconding, said that but for Dr. Thac.ker's enthusiasm, driving force, personality, and energv, Health Week would not have been "a success. As official representative of the Health Department, he had great pleasure in seconding the motion. The motion was carried by acclamation.

The chairman said it had been a labour of love to him to assist. If the necessity arose at any time he would call the committee together. The chairman and secretary were authorised to draw up a report for submission to the next meeting of the City Council.