NEW APPOINTMENT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23886, 14 August 1939, Page 10

NEW APPOINTMENT

WHEAT RESEARCH INSTITUTE VIENNESE SCIENTIST White bread is no longer considered overseas to be deleterious to health, according to Dr Rosa Stem, an Austrian woman scientist, who has arrived in Christchurch to take up a position at the Wheat Research Insti-, tute. states the Christchurch Press. Dr Stern, who was formerly employed at bread and food research work in a Vienna bakery, said in an interview that there was now little interest taken overseas in the question of the values of white bread and wholemeal bread. It was no longer considered a problem, and there was not now the same interest in it as she had found in New Zealand. When asked about the tests that had been made with mice, Dr Stern said it had been shown that a diet composed solely of either white or wholemeal bread would be fatal to mice. Dr Stern has already commenced work at the institute. She said she had read about the work of the institute before coming to New Zealand, and was delighted with her first impressions of the laboratory and its equipment. All the plant was up to date, and she had been particularly impressed by the equipment built by the staff of the institute. Valuable work for the agricultural and baking industries was being done by the institute staff, she said. Although it is not yet known to which department of the institute's work Dr Stern's talents are best suited, it was said that the work will include cereal chemistry. Dr Stern stvaied in Vienna ahd worked there until she left for England some time ago to come to New Zealand.