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Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1925, Page 4

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TO MAKE WORKERS HAPPIER. NEW HEALTH SOCIETY. I.OXDO.V. .July 2-1. With the object of making the workers of England healthier and happier, a new body. the. New Health Society, has lx-en registered us a coni],any limited by guarantee, with many (-niinent medical and public men as suL-rrihei's. The society, which will have offices at 27. Abingdon-street. Westminster, already members among these are the Tkirl of Oxford and Asrpiith. Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane. Sir William 11. AY' iI - cox. Sir Harry Baldwin. Sir Bruce Bruce Porter. Sir Kenneth Ooadhv. Sir Hamar (ireemvo >d. M.P., Sir John Ferguson, the financier. Sir Robert Hadfield. head of the great iron itinl steel works. .Messrs Fiadlieldx. and Sir Alfred Moml. Sir W. Arthubnot Lane, who w:i> the founder of the society, told a reporter last night that it has three objects: 1. To teach the public through county councils how to keep themselves hen It by. 2. To see that the right kinds of foods! nil's tire available to the public. 3. To teach the public how to obtain and preserve green fa.id ami vegetables. lie added : "We want to get people bail-: to llic land. We want to leach them how to get the best out of the hind by making them happier, healthier, and mure intelligent workmen. We want to make the factory worker more efficient, too. by leaching him how to protect his health. ! am resuscitating some of rt’m goad work which ‘'The Daily .Mail" did in urging people n eat wholemeal bread. We want this s"ciety to have a tremendous influence, and I think it will, for several prominent people, 'including Cabinet Mjnistor-, arc interesleil in the scheme." Mr .1. Ellis Barker, th.- author if the much discussed Inok. "Cancel': I low it is Cnn.-cd and I low it ( an b • Cured," will be secretary of the society. He told a reporter lasi night : "Our aim is to teach people how t: live properly," he said. "We are going to leach them how i i eat and what to cat.” LOST SPIRT! OK HAZARD. LONDON, duly 21. Speaking \eslerdav at the ionfereH" ' in Leeds of tlie Association for Education in Indus',iy and Commerce. I)r 11. Ss-hoficli! (Loughborough.) said 1 1 > thought, there was too much "safety first" in this country. " We arc losing the old I-’l itish spirit of dogigedness. of going nap where and doing anything, and of industrial con-<|i!.-s;, to he achieved." he declared. "We want mo,- 1 of the suiiit of r.dveltt ure and o| lamanl. 1 f we i mild inculcate that into our young men I think we should have nothin p to fear for British industry." Mr Percy A . Test ( 1 .endou ). I! • president, expressed the opinion that i hose who cunf rolled industry were largely pa t'a si t.es. lie spoke not o; thc-e who built up busine-'-es. luit of that class which had been able to gamble and sccculate with the organised work of their fellows, and so control the industries built up by them.

I'.S. CIiILDHEX IX I.OXDOX. I.OXDOX. July 10. ‘■'l here v<- never liee.-i '• many American children in town as there are at present.'' said (he munntrer of a West Kml hotel yesterday. -‘am! it is t- ! .■ -y who are lakinir their parents Idlin'! i. ell -! o; i am! (treat Britain. v know l.omion insiile out, Irom hooks, anil know to a siptare iitelt where every; hiny is to he fomiil. Most, of I’, ;jj , .ml the voyr.e.. m-nm Mild"it: ■; i ; i,s!: idim ami methods of rlniryiVL'. ami it is they who I re<| mil t l.v rave ilmir patents iluriny painful moment •. ••I lower er. the weekly pncket-uuiltcy allmvitre;' of the ;imr;im rich American, child Wi-.ihl promthlv I e scornfully rejected l,v the l.omion hoy. Their parents do - most of their kuyiup; for 1 hem