NEW ZEALAND FOOD
(To the Editor.)
Sir, —I feel grateful to your correspondent "Provocateur" for giving public expression to the thought that so many of we inarticulate folk have been thinking for a long time now. Ours is a temperate climate, and the food available is both rich and varied, and the. fact that oranges do not grow well here is nature's indication that they are not so essential as
some people assert. As your correspondent reminds us the original Maori population of this country were people of splendid physique, living on fish, taro, and simple plant foods. I do not know whether'the food they ate was rich in Vitamin "C", but it was certainly effective in building strpng men and women, —I, am, etc., NEW ZSALANDER. :
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 108, 8 May 1937, Page 8
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127NEW ZEALAND FOOD Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 108, 8 May 1937, Page 8
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