HOW TO SPEND ON FOOD

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 111, 23 April 1936, Page 8

HOW TO SPEND ON FOOD

Government as Housekeeper BRITISH PLAN (From Our Special Correspondent.) (By Air Mail.) LONDON, March 28. It is difficult for the more favoured people of Australia and New Zealand to realise that in overcrowded England, millions of families have to budget for rent, food, clothes and amusement on often as little at £2 5/- a week. Low wages and big families constitute such a national problem that the Government are going to tell the housewife I'.ow she should spend her money on the family’s food.

■ The Advisory Committee on Nutrition has put forward a scheme to the Ministry of Health and the Ministry thinks it a good idea. Briefly, the proposal is a national survey of family expenditure. Visits are contemplated to thousands of homes of the poorer classes to ascertain how much of the family income is apportioned for food. The Advisory Committee on Nutrition is sure that the family income is not spent as largely as it should be on protective food, such as milk, fruit and vegetables. It is sure, but it wants actual figures, like, for instance, tho conduct of Mrs Jones, of Bermondsey, who doesn't give her navvy husband a glass of milk for lunch or a milk pudding! "When definite facts have been obtained, it is intended to formulate a policy that will not only lead to the improvement of the health of the people but to the establishment of an efficient agricultural industry.