SUGAR RATIONS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 236, 6 October 1942, Page 2

SUGAR RATIONS

Your correspondent, "Fair Play," propounds a very thin plaint. He tor she) writes; "It is very hard with only two in a family, especially as there are no potatoes to be nocured unless you pay 7d per lh" "Fair Play" implies that he (or Ad would have been able to substitute potatoes in their tea in platt of insufficiency of sugar! I have nejrer heard of it. If your correspondent will write again stating whether the potatoes are used raw or cooked to flavour their tea. I may "give it a go"'; yet I. as a diabetic, do notv my sugar ration; ergo, my "host*" has the benefit of it. Oh, dear, lirgot I am forbidden potatoes, a#IS flavour my tea with a "wee drafS that I have well and truly hiOB when it was 14/ a "big 'uru" -I wonder if "Fair Play" has planM the whole of his (or her) garden wifli potatoes? Leave our recreation grounds and racecourses alone; there are thousands of acres laying Idle about Auckland, where, if cultivated, both ourselves and our American cousins could have abundance of spuds in a few weeks. AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM.