“That just shows the mentality and understanding of you men—you’ve got absolutely no right to be on a •committee of this type, you just don’t know what you’re talking about,” Mrs. M. E. Furey, a representative of the Christchurch Housewives’ Union, said in reply to Cr. H. E. Denton when she was giving evidence last evening to the vegetable committee of the City Council. Cr. Denton had asked, after ‘ one speaker had stated that for a family of four she spent 10s a week for vegetables, how the money was spent—on celery at 14s a dozen bundles, for instance, or on “the humble cabbage, parsnip, or swede.” Mrs. Furey gave instances of buying four small white turnips for 4d, three carrots for 4d, brussels sprouts at lOd per lb, and pumpkin at lOd a piece. “And if you have silver beet you need about a barrowload for a meal, it boils away so much,” Mrs Furey said amid applause.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 July 1942, Page 8
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