Than White

Brown Rice is Better Than White

SINCE May 16 it has been illegal for Papua-New Guinea em ployers of native labour to issue white rice or baked pearled wheat as rations unless these pro ducts contain the Vitamin B complex of brown rice.

If vitamin-enriched white rice or baked pearled wheat is used the issue of yeast preparations or food yeast is not necessary and, m any case, the vitamin-enriched products are merely alternatives to brown rice.

II Fiji’s new Education Plan (May PIM) will be discussed with the Colonial Office by the Director of Education (Mr. W. W. Lewis- Jones). who has gone to England on vacation leave.