GOOD SAMARITANS
The major contribution required from the people of New Zealand to-day is the avoidance of waste. The indiscriminate and heavy use of all things is particularly undesirable at this time, but even in peace, when there is a comparative abundance of the goods of the earth, waste is still a crime. There are private sections in Whakatane and farms in the country districts where fruit is at present being allowed to fall from the trees and rot on the ground. To the individual owner, who has more than sufficient for his own use, this may seem to be an insignificant matter. But what of the waste collectively? Could not the surplus be put to better use than as manure and pickings for thebirds? It would take but a. few minutes to gather a sack full of apples, per;:s, peaches, plums, neqtarines and there is always one place where such a gift would be appreciated. The Hospital has to purchase its supplies of fresh fruit and this should not be necessary when there is an over-bundance and such an apparent wastage. The BEACON suggests that herein lies the chance for Good Samaritans to prove themselves.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 126, 21 February 1940, Page 4
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