SHIPBOARD HEALTH CULT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 77, 23 December 1937, Page 6

SHIPBOARD HEALTH CULT

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Travellers by the Orford "NATURAL" FOOD AND DIETS

(By Telegraph -

AUCKLAND, Last Night. When the Orient liner Orford arrives at Auckland to-morrow morning in the course of a tourist cruise people on the wharf will probably hear 200 voices singing songs deriding the folly of drinking tea and smoking and chanting the praises of natural foods. From the decks banners 'will be waved bearing health slogans, and subsequently 200 members of the Natural Health Society from Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane will dcscend on the city. Members of the society believe only in certain kinds of "natural'/ foods and in certain dietetic combinafions. As a result the liner 's chef has been f orced to make special arrangements for meals during the cruise around the Australian , coast and across the Tasman. The 200 Australian delegates to an annual holiday conferenee will lead a "natural, regulated life" for the duration of the cruise. The members of the party range in age from one year to 80 and each morning they will assemble on the sports deck of the- liner to go through half an hour's "eurative exercises." These will be followed by a short health talk and t.hen a breakfast consisting of cereals, milk, coffee made from dandelion roots or soya beans, raisins, dates, nuts and asparagus, celcry or spinach on toast. There will be no smoking, and sugar, tea, meats and intoxicating liquors are forbidden. Delegates are not allowed. to eat fruit and bread together, and they are frowned upon if they consume fruit and cooked. vegetables at the one meal. The massed singing of the society 's "hymns" is to *>e made a feature of the liner 's call at each port.