A SQUARE MEAL.

Evening Star, Issue 20898, 15 September 1931, Page 9

A SQUARE MEAL.

TO THR EDJTOK. Sir, —I consider the remarks by Miss Read on the above subject are uncalled for and an insult to the mothers of Dunedin, as our robust, healthy children will testify. Dunedin mothers are not lazy or too ignorant to prepare a proper meal for their children. Because a family found starving ip Dunedin had only white bread and butter and golden syrup in the house this writer presumes that they bought these articles deliberately, whereas they had used all other nourishing foods on hand and were down to their last and least items. 1 was taught dietetics under the best teacher Dunedin ever knew, but 1 myself was compelled, last week to use treacle and scones to feed my eight children, because- the Unemployment Board saw fit to reduce my husband’s normal number of days’ work from four to three. As 1 have reared a. family of eleven sons and five daughters and never needed the services of a doctor to one of them, would Miss Read dare say that because .1 gave my children treacle and scones 1 did so from choice and was ignorant and lazy? The mothers of Dunedin are worthy of unstinted praise for the way they are trying to make a do of the starvation wage paid to > their husbands on the unemployed work, and need not insults from writers, but some show of Christian feeling.— I am. etc., Mother of Many.September 11.