FOOD FOR HUNGRY EUROPE

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24600, 23 June 1945, Page 4

FOOD FOR HUNGRY EUROPE

: Sir,—May I say that I most heartily ' endorse every word of the Very fine letter at the head of your correspondf ence column this morning, written by S “L.E.0.," under the heading “Food for ■; Hungry Europe.” Millions of people in Europe are actually starving and dying, our own kinsfolk in the Mother Country barely subsisting on a dreary, monotonous diet, just enough to keep | them alive and in health, with not a i fraction over, while vve in New Zea,dand are living, not only in plenty and t luxury, but even in waste; for there i must be tons of good food thrown ] away every day. One can see it in | the rubbish bins and the gutters of the j streets. I think, with your correspon--1 dent, that the position is, scandalous, } and in my view the Government is I chiefly to blame for it.—Yours, etc., i GEORGE INGRAM. June 22, 1945. Sir,—A public meeting was to have teen held in Christchurch and Dr. Muriel Bell, M.D., of Dunedin, was to have spoken on “Rationing .here and elsewhere,” and the film “World of Plenty” was to have been shown. The Home Economics Association (president, Mrs Ambridge) was going to call the meeting, which the late Mayoress, Miss’E. Couzins, was to sponsor. Unfortunately, the "women’s organisations” were not interested, so the meeting was This letter is an answer to your correspondent “L.E.0." in “The Press” to-day.—Yours, etc., GWENDOLINE S. L. JELLETT, June 22, 1945.