POISONED" IN SCHOOLS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLII, Issue 1808, 5 May 1921, Page 3

POISONED" IN SCHOOLS.

"I would like to ask Dr Colquhoun," said the Hon. W. H. Triggs at the sitting- of the Hospital i Commission at Dunedin, "whether an active campaign of preventive medicines would not obviate the necessity of many people going into the hospitals for treatment?"

In reply, Dr Colquhoun said: "The conclusion I arrived at is that so long as we continue deliberately to poison children from six to sixteen years of age in our unhygienic schools, so long will we be bringing up an inferior populaton and helping to fill the hospitals and other" institutions. Experience has shown that in fresh-air schools the children are healthier and develop a higher mentality than in the ordinary class-rooms, and further than that, the schools themselves can be conducted more economically."

part, nor he thought on the part of the members of the Council. He had always felt that he had the hearty cooperation of the Council, and he hoped he would receive the same support from the present Council.

At a meeting held subsequent to the ceremony Crs "Oram and Canton were appointed to represent the Coun* ci! on the general committee of the A. and P. Association; the Mayor, Crs Lancaster and Jackson, and Mr L. R. Bryant, on the Palmerston North River Board; and the Mayor and Crs Graham and Spooner on the Palmerston North Fire Board. STANDING COMMITTEES.

The following standing committees were appointed for 1921-22: — Public Works. —The whole Council, with the Mayor as chairman. Finance. —The Mayor (chairman), Crs Spooner, Graham and Eliott. Library.—Crs Oram (chairman), Needham and West.

and Stables. —Crs Lancaster (chairman), Spooner and Can. ton.

Gasworks. —Crs Spooner (chairman), Graham and Eliott. Abattoir. —Crs Kliott (chairman), Lancaster and Needham.

Public Health, Opera House and Cemetery.—Crs Graham (chairman), West and Canton.

Electrical. —The Mayor (chairman), Crs Graham, Lancaster and Oram. Transit. —Crs Oram (chairman), Jackson and Canton.

Housing.—Crs Jackson (chairman), Needham and West. The Mayor Is ex officio a member of all committees.

At the conclusion of the meeting the Mayor entertained the councillors with light refreshment in his room.