WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24798, 12 February 1946, Page 2

WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE

Sir,—A a long-suffering taxpayer I suggest that our Prime Minister should return to New Zealand with all haste and put his own house in order. It would horrify many, of course, if cake shops were closed, ice-creams banned, and an austerity loaf made. Incidentally, if these things were done (as they should be), there would be ample womenpower for hospitals and institutions. The Government is turning the New Zealand citizens into spineless, luxury-loving, unintelligent spenders; and in the meantime the people of Britain are on the verge Of starvation. _Y HUMBLED NEW ZEALANDER. February 11, 1946.

Sir, —The statement made by the Minister of Supply complacently claiming that care has been taken to economise in sugar would be laughable, if it were not so tragic. I emphatically deny that any care or economy has been used. One has only to glance into the cake shops, where one sees numberless cakes', iced with sugar and filled with mock cream, which, as every housewife knows, uses quantities of sugar. Daily one is sickened by tne sight of ice creams eaten in the streets by children and alas, grown-up folk, who should know better. If this is the result of planned economy, may Providence protect us from future plans by the same planners.—Yours. etC ’’ SOOTHING SYRUP. February 11, 1946.