IODINE BUREAU

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1938, Page 3

IODINE BUREAU

FORMATION IN ENGLAND. NEW ZEALAND GIRL’S POST. The formation of an lodine Educational Bureau to promote the knowledge and use of iodine in the agricultural, medical and industrial fields is announced from England. The new bureau will collect all available scientific information in respect of iodine' which has been discovered since, in 1811, the French chemist, Bernard Courtois isolated and named the element. This information will be placed at the disposal of the medical profession and scientific agricultural circles as well as manufacturers and' livestock breeders. The lodine Bureau will not engage in any selling activities, its functions being entirely educational. This activity is being organised in the interest of the Chilean iodine producers, whosupply more than three-quarters of the world’s consumption. ■ The bureau will be under the direction of Dr F. C. Kelly, who has beenassociated with Sir John Orr for more than six years as deputy-director of the Imperial Bureau of-Animal Nutrition, at the Rowett Institute -In' Aberdeen. He was probably the first investigator in Great Britain to- study the role of iodine in nutrition'. : Dr Kelly’s technical assistant will be Miss Ethelwyn M. Mason, of the New Zealand Department of Agriculture, who has been carrying out iodine research at the Rowett Institute sinc.e 1934. Miss Mason holds the degree of M.Sc. from the University of New Zealand. j