FOOD REFORM.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16813, 3 June 1926, Page 9

FOOD REFORM.

PJ.S.W. MINISTER KEEN, lilt. MORRIS' WORK. Food reform was Die subject of remarks by the N.S.W. Minister for Health (Mr Gann), with reference to recent articles in the Daily Telegraph. Already, said the Minister, tin' Government had started out on an educational campaign by appointing Dr. Morris director of maternal and infant welfare. Everyone must realise the vital importance of proper feeding during infancy, and it would be a part of Dr. Morris' work to ensure a thorough dissemination of knowledge on this subject. It would not lie considered sufficient to establish merely more baby clinics, and probably committees would be formed at each centre, with the purpose of maintaining an energetic campaign. An outstanding necessity of any food reform .scheme, continued Mr Cann, was to find a means of providing The people witli food in its cheapest and purest form. In this regard it was hoped that much would be accomplished by the producers and consumers' conference, lo be called by the Minister for Eands. The solution seemed to iNrn lo lie ehielly in bringing producers and consumers more closely together. "1 do not presume lo go into medical delail regarding diet," the Minister added, "but personally T think mat we eat far 100 much pastry and thai sort of thing. I quite agree that milk is good, wholesome human food, and it would be far heller ror our younger generation if they gol more of Ihe simpler foods. The arlieles appearing in the Daily Telegraph will have a good effect if. only in promoting public interest in the subject, which, as a part of the public health problem, is one into which no party interests should be allowed to enter."