“IMPROVING”
BRITISH FiTYSrOn
LONDON, Aug. 24
“Despite depression and the oH'octs of flic dole, there is a steady improvement in the physique of the people,’'
said Sir .Tames Elder, retiring Australian Commissioner to I’.S.A., in an interview with the special representative of the Sun.
“ Despite the number of idle workmen, owing to the general strike,’’ lie tuliled, there is less evidence of poverty' than in EC.T. The people art' better fed ami dressed, ami the cities are clean.a." “The neglect of the teeth, however, especially' of children's, is most regrettable. Attention was recently drawn in school children's teeth, but much remains to lie done. In .America, the care of the teeth is almost a religion.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17132, 7 September 1926, Page 5
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