A New Dish
In the course of an address to fruitgrowers in Hastings Mr. J. H- Parker, assistant manager of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federation, who recently returned from a visit to Britain and America, made reference to the food shortage in Britain. He described sausages i n Britain as bread in battlepress, and in reference to queues, he instanced the case of a man who joined in a queue of 700 and waited for two hours for a pound of New Zealand apples and then never got them. Mr. Parker also mentioned another queue which was joined by a woman whose first query was as to what the queue was for. One “wag” told her it was for “Tales of Hoffman,” and her reply was: “Oh, I must get some of those. My husband is so hungry lie'll cal - - »
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22242, 30 January 1947, Page 4
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140A New Dish Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22242, 30 January 1947, Page 4
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