BOARD SCOFFS AT DENTIST’S WARNING
SWEETS FOR CHILDREN. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, March 22. Tho wisdom of giving sweets to children came before tho Canterbury Education Board to-day when the Director of the Division of Dental Hygiene wrote asking that tho attention of school commmittees bo drawn to the prejudicial effects of sweets given to children at school picnics and on other occasions. “I would sooner let my children havo sweets, even if it took a day off their lives,” said Mr W. H. Winsor. “When I went to school I had a good chew,” said Mr W. P. Spencer, “and it never did me any harm.” Mr C. S. Thompson said that if a packet of ordinary boiled sweets did any harm to people it was time that they got off tho earth.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6867, 23 March 1929, Page 6
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