PROTESTS OF HOUSEWIVES HAVE SYMPATHY OF FORMER FOOD MINISTER

Evening Star, Issue 26144, 4 July 1947, Page 5

PROTESTS OF HOUSEWIVES HAVE SYMPATHY OF FORMER FOOD MINISTER

(N.Z.P.A. Special-Correspondent.) (Rec. 11.35 a.m.) .LONDON, July 3. The Housewives' Leaguq. which . was recently declared to be “ Tory,” is in no way affiliated to the Conservative Party, according to Lord Woolton. “ It might save a little of the time of our political opponents if 1 were to say publicly that the league has no connection, with, nor is it financed by. the Conservative Party,” he said. “ I have never, to the best of mv know-

ledge, seen the people who are running that league, and T have had no conference with them of any sort', either directly or indirectly. If that is not a complete statement'l don’t know what is.” ' ■ Lord Wooltou added that he could not help being in sympathy with housewives of all sections and of all societies who felt it their duty to enter some protest against the administrative incompetence of the present Government. Lord Woolton, attacking the food statement mhde in the House of Commons by Mr Strachey, questioned the value of calorific standards in measuring’ the nation’s diet. “ Cod liver oil,” he said. “ contains six and a-half times a 5.... much calories as the equivalent weight in eggs—but try it on the breakfast table. By drinking a bottle of gin one would get 2,000 calories.”