POINTS OF VIEW

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 58, Issue 4191, 31 May 1939, Page 6

POINTS OF VIEW

CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. Sir, —In your report of the Waipa County Council meeting you quote Mr J. T. Johnson’s remarks regarding an appropriate centennial memorial. Mr Johnson suggests the making of a park as a suitable and lasting memorial. This suggestion seems to me a splendid idea, and one that should 1 receive the utmost support from town and country alike. Personally I would like to see a park in which native trees were given pride of place, for beautiful native trees, shrubs and ferns are too little known, and a park, as Mr Johnson suggests, given chiefly to the growing of all kinds of native bush would be of inestimable value in making our people familiar with our forest trees. What a wonderful memorial! It would embody the past and would last for ever. It would be of tremendous educational value. Could anyone think of anything more suitable? A site should be chosen which would be close to Te Awamutu, which is the centre of our district. The site should also be of historical interest. It should not be too big. The cost of establishing and maintaining such a park could be borne, in proportions to be agreed upon, by the county and borough councils. It would then be representative of the whole district. My hope is that Mr Johnson’s suggestion shall be taken up by all interested and be made a reality.—l am, etc., S. A. AMMON. BROWN V. WHOLEMEAL. Sir,—Enclosed is a letter which appeared in a recent paper commenting on nutrition. In my opinion it is worthy of so much publicity that for the benefit of those readers who did not see it when first published I would ask for your co-operation in the matter. The letter says:— “In your excellent sub-leader on ‘ Nutrition of Children ’ you say: ‘ Diets do not need to be elaborate to supply the essentials, which can be found in brown bread, etc.’ But, I ask, what essentials are found in brown bread ? Some people fancy that they have done something worth while when they have changed from white bread to brown, but actually there is little difference of importance. Brown bread is only white bread with bran added for roughage and coloured with caramel (burnt sugar). Only wholemeal bread contains the germ of the wheat which is so rich in the valuable vitamins B and E, besides the essential minerals and proteins. In the same way, many people use brown sugar instead of white, which has little or no extra value. Only raw sugar has the real value, containing iron and calcium, the latter being necessary for the teeth.’ ” —I am, etc., PRO BONO PUBLICO.