FOR BETTER FOOD

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 17, 13 October 1937, Page 7

FOR BETTER FOOD

Peer Froposes Travelling Cookery Teachers Travelling Governmenfc vans to go about the country lecturing on the choice and cooking of food were suggested by Lord Dawson in the House of Lords recently. Many people, he said, did not know how to choose food, and having chosen it did not know to cook it. He was suro such a team would be well received. He. was supporting the Pihysical Training Bill, the seconi reading of which was moved by Earl Stanhope, Board of Education President. He said he believed some of the peers present indulged in physical training. ' ' I do, on a Towing machine, ' ' ihe said. "I am bound to admit that it is extreinely dull. "We shall not make a real succesa of a national system which coniines itsclf entirely to gymnuslie training and physical jerks. We want to make it more attractive by joining it up with outdoor sports and outdoor games." There were still a large number of people, some responsible for the conduct of public sckools, who had not realised the value of physical training. Some sohools were producing boys who, perhap3 through walking about with their hands in their pockets, according to scliool custom, had round skoulders for the rcst of their lives. Lord Strabolgi said the Labour Party welcomed the Bill. But they said that wliolesome food was of more importance for a large section of poor people than physical jerks. Lord Aberdare, Chnirman of the National Advisory Council, said he wa* suro there was no truth in the charge that there was a military motive behind tho scheme. The scheme was the natural demand of children after leaving scbool because (jf their appreeiation and understanding jf being- physically