Kenya Drought
Sir, —In this morning's paper you printed a photograph of some children, some of the 500.000 who are starving and suffering from malnutrition through the worst drought in the history of Kenya. It is a wicked disgrace that this is allowed to go on through no fault of their own. Why is not something done about it? What about the surplus rotting food in a lot of countries, through no buyers? Whajt about New Zealand, with its surplus potatoes? The Health Department and the Potato Board advised recently how the growers should dump their hundreds of thousands of tons of potatoes, and what to spray and treat them with before burying them. This dumping is done to keep prices up. in general, to the public of New Zealand. No consideration for the brotherhood of New Zealand or of the old-age pensioners, or various institutions or hospitals: all tor the selfishness of man.—Yours, etc., E. BARRITT. November 23, 1961. (Mr M. P. Rousham, executive officer of the New Zealand Potato Board, said: “As the trade has doubts about the suitability of these potatoes for carriage to the North Island, their export to Kenya would be out of the question.”]
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29691, 8 December 1961, Page 3
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