FOOD RESEARCH

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 118, 20 May 1943, Page 11

FOOD RESEARCH

THREE-DAY CONFERENCE In the absence of Dr. Cairney, medical superintendent of Wellington Hospital, Dr. Mercer welcomed the 49 delegates from all parts of the Dominion who attended the inaugural Dominion conference of the New Zealand Dietetic Association this week. The facilities of the Wellington Hospital were placed at their disposal. The conference, which was extended over three days, included inspection visits to an American liospital near Wellington, the Lower Hutt Hospital, the Y.W.C.A. hostel for munition workers at Woburn, and the diet department

and nurses' home at Wellington Hospital. Miss M. B. McKenzie, president, outlining the gradual growth of the. association since 1934, stressed that as the main objective was to establish a high standard, only those persons who were eligible for membership of the British or American Dietetic Associations were admitted to the New Zealand association prior to 1940. Since then a training course for hospital dietitians had been established in the four main centres under the auspices of the Health Department and Otago University, and it would be from these groups largely that future membership wpuld come. She stated that war had provided a great stimulus to nutritional research, and had been partly responsible for the rapid advance of knowledge in this field. Dr. Elizabeth Gregory, dean of the faculty of home science, Otago University, proposed a vote of thanks to Dr. Cairney, superintendent, and to Miss Clark, matron of Wellington Hospital, for their hospitality and help. MARRIED IN ENGLAND On April' 17, in England, 'Miss Helen Valeric Riddiford, twin daughter of the late Mr. Earle Riddiford, of Wairarapa, and of Mrs. H. F. Nicoll, of Clyde Road, Christchurch, was married to Mr. Alexander Milroy Kennedy, B.A. (Cantab.), A.M.1.C.E., A.M.1.E.E., second son of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Kennedy, of Edinburgh. Engineering is a reserved occupation in England, and the bridegroom is doing work for the Government. . ST. JOHN VOLUNTARY AIDS Her Excellency Lady Newall, Com-mandant-in-Chief of Voluntary Aids, will inspect St. John Voluntary Aids in the Government House Grounds on Saturday,. May 22, at 3 p.m. The parade will be under the control of the Provincial Commandant, / Mrs. Claude Taylor.