ORANGES.

Evening Star, Issue 22638, 3 May 1937, Page 14

ORANGES.

TO THE EDITOR* gir _lt, was with great interest and perfect agreement I read in your ‘ Star ’ a letter about oranges by “ Vitamins Mean Life,” who is to_ be commended on this very fine letter, which touches on the mam points. Surely it is time we bestirred ourselves to the ever-increasing prices of the necessities of life, and, above all, the God-given fruits grown that men and women and children might eat of them and find health. To-day it is a proven fact that health can be regained by eating fruit and green vegetables—uncooked fruits, and, above all, pineapples, lemons, oranges, apples. What child would refuse an apple or orange? Yet they are beyond the purse of the average worker. It would be far more profitable for the Government to tackle and put right the problem of an easy fruit supply than spend thousands of pounds giving pasteurised milk (dead food robbed of all its food value) to school children, much of which is wasted and not necessary, or to spend on Wellington’s Hospital extension alone, for example, £465,000 for people who are‘sick. It seems to me that everybody is trying to solve the problem at the wrong end. The Mayor of Riverton (Dr N. G. Trotter) on April 26 stressed the need for a better supply of fruits, and urged that citrus fruits played an important part in maintaining health. So let the voice of the people who know the value of these glorious fruits be heard until we get them. What are our doctors doing?—l am, etc., Radiaot Heai/eh< , May