SEAWEED ICE CREAM

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 144, 20 August 1941, Page 2

SEAWEED ICE CREAM

MACAROONS FROM N.Z. FRUIT

STONES

Wall boards from Ceylon, maca roons from. New Zealand apricot, peach and cherry stones, building blocks from the coral mud of British Honduras and canned chicken from India are among the investigations reviewed in its new report by Britain's Imperial Institute.

The Institute has carried out experiments on the production from Malayan seaweed of agar-agar, a substance used for such diverse

purposes as cheap American icecream, Chinese bird's nest soup, electro-plating, and a laxative. Malayan tonka beans, which impart to tobacco the scent of new-mown hay, have been examined,, as have Australian substitutes for Swedish "and Spanish welding rod coating materials.

There are reports on ruby-mica from India, South African chicory ;eed and New Zealand pigs' hair; sheepskins from Tanganyika and banana stems from Palestine ; Aiv liguan cotton seed, Nyasaland tung oil and Nigerian ginger ; soap from •Burma, sansevieria fibre from East Africa, raisins from Cyprus, cashew nuts from Sierra Leone and Medicinal plants from Southern Rhodesia. Under war conditions, much of the Institute's work is secret, -but it may be stated that the. Plant and Animals Department made reports on 212 samples and dealt with 1666 other inquiries from 33 Empire countries, while the Mineral Resources Department examined 1884 samples and dealt with 1715 inquiries.