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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 219, 16 June 1925, Page 7

At the annual conference in Christchurch of the North Canterbury district of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, Dr. G. J. Blackmore (reports the “Lyttelton Times”) gave an address on the subject of fresh air in schools. Dr. Blackmore said that freshair schools were quite'as important in. the country as in the city. It was inhuman to coop children up in stuffy schoolrooms. The speaker stressed the necessity of fresh air for health, and quot- d figures to show that fanners and outdoor workers were lets liable to lung troubles than people who worked indoors. It was nothing short of cruelty to keep children in closed-in schools, and he thought Chat the farming community could do a lot to remedy this state of affairs. Children often contracted tuberculosis from cows affected with the disease. The tuberculin method had proved successful in combating tuberculosis in dairy herds. He instanced the case, of one dairy farmer who had practically eradicated the disease from liis herd by means of the tuberculine method. lir. Blackmore was accorded a heartv vote of thanks for his address.