The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1913. WASTE AND OVER-EATING

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 March 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1913. WASTE AND OVER-EATING

In the January uumuer of the British .Medical Journal appears an article on "Waste aiid Over-eating" In the light ot perpetually-recurring discussions on the increased cost of living in New Zealand, the full text of the article is worthy of perusal by -.11 sections of the community. Insufficiency of space prevents us from ieprinting the full substance of the lisquisition, but to give a fair idea ol the merits of the article we make a few extracts. in an introductory lament on the departure of the haggis and the kailyard gieejistuffs from the cottars' board, the editor ol the Medicai •Journal remarks that the old magnificent'basis of diet now hae'beeii'ior.saken lor white bread, margarine and tea "The cottage home in many towns* has almost gone, changed into the i ne and two-roomed, tenement, the cooking facilities therein are as bad as they can be, and this, combiner! with factory life and the amusements of the town, lead to the lazy easy purchase of prepared foods." The foregoing sentence is applicable to eome Australasian cities. Continuing his discourse, the writer remarks that 'he miller takes from the wheat those subtle principles that form the lifegiving, fat-forming substance in fooJ, and .soils in the form of pollard and bran to cattle owners and poultry farmers.- . . . Malnutrition has Been due to the ignorant feeding habits as much a-s to the poverty of the poor: +o their notion that all foods are of equal value, and to the diet of white bread. I margarine and tea. . .g. Let the Government once and for all forb'd the present process of bleaching flour, which enables low grades of flour to be sold as white, and insist on the sale of household flour of the same standard as our forbears had from the millers whose windmills ground the golden grain. Tt is the bleaching and paking of flour which give opportunity for the millers to form rings and force prices up in times liKe these.." An interesting proof adduced to support the contention that white-ffour bread is insufficient to support life for any great period sets out tHe fact that "iii three weeks pigeons fod on white bread mid water mope and die. though on wholemeal bread they live and flourish. This is a true physiological test of bread value. Further, it should e remembered that tinned meats lose much of their life-saving properties of meat cooked and eaten without preservation. In the canning, of foodstuffs heating up to 220 degrees destroys the vitamines. Tinned fowl, therefore, cannot replace fresh foods. We want the nation to have fresh foods, not faked foods." The arti?lp contains a eulogium on the very high value of the potato, in conjunction with cheese or milk, as a vitammeous food.

Auckland province is feeling (he stimulus from through communication afforded by the completion of the Main Trunk railway line ajid the consequent opening up of the wide areas of arable land south of Auckland City. Mr Hugh Hall, who has returned Co Levin from a trip through the province, speaks of a general tone ot prosperity observable in the country towns he visiled. To Aroha, Tauranga and Wailii were notable instances. All the conveniences of modern science are being completed at Tauranga. Under direction of Mr Climio. the engineer who carried out the Levin waterworks installation, a. high-pressure sanitation scheme -is being established. liot'li electric light and gas are installed. The hesidwaters of the Omunawa stream form the basis of the water supply. In this stream our Levin townsman had the best fishing of his tour, near the falls of Omunawa. These have a 65 feet drop, and present a (striking spectacle. They fall into a basin about one acre in extent. Mr Hall mot several ex-Levin residents whileon his tour. Mr J. Devine i.s still at Kotorua. Mr Ernest Levy at "Whnkatane. At Te Arolia lie found two .;t Levin's original tradesmen: ~lr Frank Keen, hairdresser, and Charles Ba: , - nard, jeweller. Mr C. Cootes. formerly teller in the Bank of New Zealand, Levin, is accountant to the .IV Aroha branch, one of the bank's most profitable branches. An interesting excursion to the WaMii goldmines was made by Messrs Hnll and Devine. Soik. 200 men now are working in the mines, and the quartz is averaging 3oz. lOdwts to the ton. Tn one specially rich veir o while back a seam was broken whicli ran 25 ounces to the ton in its richest part. Mr Hall brought liomo with I;in) a sample of quartz from tins vein.

Croquet is a popular pasting in tliv iiortli. Mr Hugh flail found a r-ro-quet given established at nearly every green he visited in tlie Auckland district, and the sight of bowlers an! their wives playing contiguously gave an earnest camaraderie that is likely t<i lie emulated locally.

The meeting of Levin War Club and .Soldiers' Friend Society will Be held next Thursday ovening in the Druida' Hall. The date fixed originally wli.s Wednesday, but there arc three eouii-tcr-attraetinns on Wednesday il

has been thought advisable to altor the night of meeting.

From District Orders, tin- Chronicle makes the following excerpt. "As there appears to be some misunderstanding on the part of patriotic coai mittees, and individuals who are so kindly supplying clotfiing. etc., to :he Expeditionary Force, as t-o the it. in.. supplied by the Defence Department, the following list showing the cloiai.u issued to each man is publishe-i for the information of all concerned:

Uniform clothing—2 jackets, T pur trousers or pantaloons. 1 felt hat. 1 forage cap. 1 pair putties, 1 ;r<-at coat. 2 pairs boots, 1 denim suit. .

pair canvas shoes. Personal clothing Kit bag, 2 blankets, 2 working sTiiri* 2 under shirts. 2 pairs unclerpnntx. '

pair braces, 3 pair socks, 1 pafr to'wels 1 khaki jersey. 1 cholera, belt. 1 iit>'-.l all containing knife, fork and spo jh 1 "housewife" filled. 1 plate. 1 p;;>>-;; kin. 1 .sea kit bag.

Driving a coach and four through in net of Parliament is not easy as :'.-,<■

Horowhenua County Council found ■>: Saturday. Application had been in;. I ■ to it to take, over an unformed -<; --I from private individuals. The Council was satisfied that the proj- •-•!

would bo to i"fc advantage, but the \<t says distinctly that a local body cane .. take over a road nmtil it has he :i formed to £he Council's satisfncrlni,, and in this case nothing m»s yet ')• -n done to the road. One councillor ■■•-

marked that they nearly had got the n .selves in gaol over the sai nothing once before. Another ispt-a-ker said that it was the AucKtor-G*>r>«r:>' that made trouble in these ina.fr. ■

The Council had done it on other occn .sions. but had only been caught one . A suggestion was made that the A,-l migh bo circumvented if a cor.r.Je <;; furrows were turned along tin r<i >-l site. 'Hiis might pass as form;i !■,,■,■, within tlie meaning of the Act and ,]>:• Council could then take it over. Councillors butted their intellects ngai:i>f the Act for a while longer an-: then decided to appoint a committee to •Iμl with the matter. Last night borough councillor en phasised the need of everyone Hoim* their best to get a. good at the live-saving oxhiTitiorf *ti. he given in the local Baths on? Wr<ini'.sday noxt. The Town' Clerk ren<.-irked that they need not worry; it woul? he a free show and there wouM !<i' a good attendance. Men who are interested in big .aiiu-s and well-assorted stocks of mrn's wear should rend Stilee and Matheson's now advertisement in to-day's paper The Hoii. H. 17. Bell notified the Borough Council last night hv loiter that he will be in Levin shortly in connection with Hir Horowhenua Lake Domain. He that he did not think anything could be done without an amendment to the existing law. In connection with the above a letter was received from Mr W. H. Field. M.P.. asking the Council to pet apart a day to meet the Hon. H. D. Bell. The Mayor etated that he had replied suggesting next Friday, Saturday or Monday. A letter was received from Mr H. E. Keys by the Borough Council last evening asking to be allowed to surrender his lease of a section in Ox-ford-street which lie fook up in December. 1013. He was unable to raise a loan for building, though bo had made persistent efforts in that direction. The matter was referred to the Finance Committee.

Tn connection with the visit to tin.

Levin Baths on Wednesday of several members of the Royal Lifesavins; Society, the Mayor remarked that he lioped the result would be the formation of a local lite-saving club. Councillor Blenfchorn eupportod tho idea. It would be woll if tne nucleus of a club could be formed on Wednesday. Other councillors 'commended the idea.

Two tenders were received for the printing of the horonsh rolls at 14s 8d ■per page, one from {Tie Horowhenun Publishing Company and the other fron>. the Modern "Printing Company. The matter was left in the liands of the Mayor and the Town Clerk to deal with.

3 The total accounts passed for pay--1 ment last night by the Levin Borough 1 Council totalled close on £530. The 1 greater part of this (£300) was made ' up of annual interest charges. The time during whicli the notes of banks trading in New Zealand shall \ bt legal tender has been extended till August Gth next ,according to a pro- . clamatiou in a Gazette Extraordinary last night. The (Jazetto also conr tains an order prohibiting the export ' of oats from the Dominion. i The lit. Hon. AY. l< - . jiassey sta'v.'d - to an Evening Post report on Saturday i thai if there arc any further increase i in the price ot bread tlic lioveinnijnt > will establish bakeries in tlto tour priui cipal centres with Uie regulating prices. jf"" 1 A petty thief wiio harasses Levin shopkeepers from time t-i> time was busy last week. It is reported that • three places were burglariously enteved by him last week. l<lolll a local grocer he stolo tins of nsh and an alarm clock; from a bootmaker a pair ol boots aud from a butcher some meat delicacies. The object of the display of life-sav-iug processes to be given in Levin next Wednesday is to awaken public inteiest in the affairs of the Koyal Life Saving Society with a view to the formation of classes in Levin. The Coronation Baths affords special lacilities for the training operations of tho Society, ami doubtless a class will be forniod in this town. The settlers of the Heatherlea Settlement are steadily improving their sections, and good substantial houses are now being erected on many of them. Twenty-seven Homes have been, or are building, up to th© present. The areas under different crops are small this season, but all look well and several of the settlers have fine crops of potatoes. The maize looks much better in this settlement thai in other parts of the district.