SUNLIGHT LEAGUE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 493, 30 June 1932, Page 8

SUNLIGHT LEAGUE.

New Members Welcomed to Committee. A meeting- of the committee of the Sunlight League in New Zealand was held yesterday afternoon. Dr W. Fox was elected chairman for the ensuing year and Mr L. F. de Berry vice-chair-man. Dr Fox welcomed the following new members:—Dr D. E. Currie, Dr G. E. Beeby, Dr J. P. M’Quilkin and Mr Lovell-Smith. Sir Thomas Sidey and Mrs Herbert Acton-Adams were elected to the council and Dr Robinson Hall was appointed a technical adviser. It’was decided that the Sunlight League send a delegate to represent it on the National Council of Women. Sub-Committees’ Reports. Dr L. Averill, chairman of the Health Camp Sub-Committee, reported that the domain and pavilion at Okains Bay would be available for a health camp next year. Dr Currie, for the. Education and Publicity Sub-Committee, stated that news- ; paper articles and radio talks had been prepared and given and an article on Youth Hostels would appear in the New Zealand Toe H journal. The committee had been asked to contribute an article on health camps to “Children of tho World,” edited by Arthur Mee, and to give accounts of the work of the Sunlight League in New Zealand to Dr Saleeby’s journal “Sunlight League in England.” It was decided to support Dr Beeby’s playground scheme to benefit children aged five and six years to be launched next September. Air H. M’D. Vincent, for the smoke abatement sub-committee, stated that the committee deemed it inadvisable, owing to difficult times, to urge firms to discard chimneys and to install heating appliances. It was decided that householders should be approached first. Several members of the City Council had been approached with, regard to disposing of rubbish near the estuary rather than by using destructors in the heart of the city. Dr M’Quilkin, for the Dental and Diet Sub-Committee, reported that Mr Bryce, Dental District Superintendent of Schools in the South Island, had consented to act on the sub-committee. Progress reports on the A.l scheme had been received from St Andrew’s kindergarten and Waltham and proved satisfactory. Radio talks on teeth had been arranged. A talk to children would be given by Miss M'Lachlan next Friday. It was decided that Miss Wilding and Miss Andrew approach various people to ask them to act on the Tramping Sub-Committee. It was stated that Dr seer eta i had acc<spted the position of Dr Fox reported that progress was being made by the Heliotherapy Committee.