SPENDING £1.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 42, 19 February 1937, Page 6

SPENDING £1.

"A Woman" must be a truly wonderful housekeeper. How does she manage to live on 3Jozs of potatoes, 4sozs of meat and 4ozs of beans, which includes all waste attached to same? This is only one meal. Does the lady have only bread for the other meals? As regards meat, it is as necessary as any food for the blood. Jdo not consider one pound of bread is a lot for a man when he make* two meals of it, without anything else to cat with it. Seeing that your correspondent says I am a mere man. and therefore do not know how to spend that pound, perhaps* she will lie kind enough to give me some advice through your columns, always bearing in mind that l'pav 8/ for rent and for gas, and I nearlv forgot to say that I do wash myself and clothes, so do not forget to add the soap and firing necessary for same, and also to provide for an occasional haircut, razor blades, etc. A* I have not joined any nudist colony, please do not forget such cheap articles as boots. socks, shirts, clothe* and audi articles dear to the heart of the su**enance man. My mate in the next room has just called out to inquire if I have paid my unemployment lew, so here goes to the post offieo to give" Die Minister of "Employment" a bob back out of the pound. > STAY IX YOUR OWN' BACKYARD.

\our correspondent "A W/mian" must, with the second one she has to feed, have an appetite like a sparrow. Potatoes at 310/s a day would not be over-nourishing, especially combined with 4ozs of beans and 3sd worth of meat. Steak at Sd per pound is probablv 11nmost economier.l "buy," so 3Jozs of meat would complete the scrumptious meal. Of course. the 4ozs of bread would no doubt help to Jill an aching void. Probablv "A Woman" can afford to procure other foodstuff* of a more expensive kind to take the place of the above. or at least help them out, whilst to the sustenance man they are unattainable luxuries. I am not a sustenance man and have never been in that unfortunate position, but lie ha* my sympathy, scraping an existence out of i mere pittance given to him grudifinjrly by those who have never known t'>ie meaning of the word want. A MERE MAX.

I would be viery pleased if I could make £1 go as far an "A Woman" can. There ate five of us in our family, and here w our !>u<k' i on a weekly ba«is: Milk 5/. bread :</«'■ '"'■" 15/, groceries 15/,. vegetables 7/. butter mil •gjrs 10/. Apart from coal, gas »ml rent. I maintain that we need these things to '»' strong and healthy, and I might state I h;i brought a family up without illness of anv kind. ANOTHER WOMAN.