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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18830, 6 August 1929, Page 7

The average girl in England dressed in the latest expensive styles, wears clothing which weighs just over one pound. Last evening, in the lecture room at the Public Library, Professor E. Per* cival. qf Canterbury College, gave an address on the subject, “ Sunshine and Cod Liver Oil,” to a large and appreciative audience. The lecture is one of a series conducted by the authorities in aid of the Children’s Library. Professor Percival dealt at length with his subject, stressing the necessity of sunlight for growth in plant and animal life using lantern slides to illustrate' his points. He showed how sunlight was essential even to the lowest form*? of life, and how each organism stored up the sunlight in a concentrated form. In fish it was retained in the fats .of the liver, and in plants was found in the saps and the juices of the seeds.