TUATAPERE NOTES

Southland Times, Issue 21429, 25 June 1931, Page 8

TUATAPERE NOTES

WOMEN’S DIVISION FARMERS’ UNION. (From Our Correspondent.) On Monday evening a large number of members of the W.D.F.U. and friends had the pleasure of listening to a most interesting and instructive address and demonstration on “The food we should eat” and the preparation of the lunch for the school child, given by Misses McMillan and Reid, of the Otago University Home Science Extension Service. Mrs F. Harrison, president of the union, introduced the speakers who brought under notice the fact that the various foods taken in correct proportions went a long way. to supplying -good health, and that suitable foods were a great aid to the teeth of children. Milk should form a main item in the diet, vegetables were of great importance, whole meal bread preferable to white; fish and oysters should be a part of the diet and iodized salt was useful, in fact essential in goitre trouble. Mrs W. Arthur, Papatotara, and Mrs McCulloch, Tuatapere, thanked the visitors for the interesting address. The members of the union then dispensed supper.