WHOLEMEAL BREAD

Evening Post, Volume 68, Issue 68, 22 March 1943, Page 4

WHOLEMEAL BREAD

(To the Editor.) Sir.—lt is plain that education alone has little effect on- the conduct of peoples. If Mrs. Grigg's suggestion in the House of Representatives had been adopted—that one standard quality of wholemeal bread should be made compulsory .during the war—New Zealand would have taken its first step in reestablishing ■ its health. Nevertheless there are housewives .who would gladly buy wholemeal bread if it were made available. People living in the suburbs have so little chance of getting-whole-meal—not merely brown—bread' that those who are awake to its value are obliged to make it themselves. •- Here we have a town bristling with .cake shops. These are well patronised. They save the housewife the trouble of making, cakes.- Would it mot be sensible to save those mothers who do care for their families' health the work of making their own bread? Of course it is primarily the fault' of the public, which does not ask and agitate for the right thing, but the master bakers could help if they, would insist that every distributor received a quota of real wholemeal bread with every delivery.—l am, etc., 1 ' MOTHER.