POOD IN IRELAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16823, 13 April 1918, Page 10

POOD IN IRELAND.

Sir,—The following newspaper cutting from tho Saturday Review was sent to me ma letter from England:— 1 think English people would have opened their eyes at the breakfast in tho restaurant car. Largo bowls full of sugar, plates heaped with rolls of butter—not margarmc—us much and more bread than anyone could eat, jugs of milk, eggs and bacon, lavish marmalade, lea and coffee! And not a penny increase in price, on prewar limes! The talk was all of sport and coursing, and only one mention of the war, when one man threw down the Independent with a sneer: '1 see the beautiful Britishers have to retire at two points'! I did feel so sore and miserable, and could only think of those patient queues in the Edgwaro Road waiting for hours to get ilb of margarine, sugar, or tea; and then of nur men nil over the world defending, incidentally, Ireland, that they might sneer and eat and go to races, and not lift a finger! How can such things Yours faithfully, M. [Tho lady who records this experience is the wife of an Irish squire and personally known to us.—Ed. S.R.]' This bears out Mrs. Leo Myers's statement, mado in the Hkiuld supplement of last Saturday, and is a complete answer to the letter of Justitia in the Herald; of April 11. Loyalist. i

Sir.—ln support of Mrs. Leo. Myers's remarks about Ireland in last Saturday's supplement, the following is an extract from a letter received by me lately, dated February 10, 1918. The writer is a responsible householder who has lived for many years in the South of Ireland. After describing how he and his family are observing two nieatlesii days a week, mid all possible restrictions, to conform to tho Food Controller's wishes, he goes en to say ;— "We however, bo much worse riff, us over here we get as much as wo j want to evt. Of course we could have as I much inent as we liked. The butchers have plenty, and there is no limit to what one can buy, but wo are supposed to limit ourselves. However I do not know any over here who does— any rate not in this part of Ireland. It is a great pity Ireland has not been treated like England all through. She has been pampered and spoiled, and the consequence is that the majority of the population is as disloyal as it well can be." I am half ashamed of my ,'ignature until I remember the many "loyal and bravo sons of Ireland who are now fighting and giving their lives for King and country. Irishwoman.