DISAPPOINTED BY C.A.R.P.
An organisation of housewives which put pressure on the Government to do more for the peoples of the world who had no bread or who had never seen a biscuit would do a better job for humanity than C.A.R.P., said the Rev. R. M. O’Grady at the Inter-Church School for Women in Christchurch yesterday.
At a time when babies were dying of starvation in India and in the Congo, and the gulf widened between the very rich and very poor countries, he found it a little depressing to see a popular movement such as the Campaign Against Rising Prices on the New Zealand scene, Mr O’Grady said. He conceded that the increased price of butter, bread and other foods did impose hardship on age beneficiaries and some other groups within the community, and it was right that the public should be concerned about them. “But let us try to be honest about this,” he said. “All that these increases mean for most of us is that we shall have to make do with a little less cream cake and fewer luxuries until the economic situation improves. No-one is going to die of starvation on the streets of Christchurch because of these measures.”
The situation should be viewed in an International perspective in which twothirds of the world’s population was hungry, Mr O’Grady said.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31319, 15 March 1967, Page 2
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