World Never Well Fed

Northern Advocate, 2 September 1947, Page 5

World Never Well Fed

(Special) AUCKLAND, This Day. "The world has never had enough to eat; half of it has never had more than a starvation diet, nor is there a prospect of enough food in the next generation.” Stating that the world had never known over-production of which it was fashionable to speak during the depression, Dr Kenneth Cumberland, lecturer in charge of geography at Aucxland University spoke in these terms in an address to the Chamber of Commerce today. New Zealanders were apt to imagine that their wartime food production left little to be desired, he said. The managed to produce 9 per cent more lamb and 6 per cent more mutton, but cheese production had dropped by 5 per cent, butter by 12 per .cent, pig meat by 26 per cent and wheat by 31 per cent.