BRITISH TRADITIONS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22081, 10 April 1935, Page 17

BRITISH TRADITIONS

Sir, —In support of my 1914-18 coillusionists, P. McG. Stewart and E. Saw, and in addition to my letter of March 20 re that dairy vote, we must be thankful that we can use our pencil to remove these directors as occasion arises. 1 wonder what our free-market-ing directors would have said if, when reading the war news 20 years back, they found that the New Zealand troops refused to fight the enemy as a whole, but each district insisted on foing a lone hand. We should have lost eavily. But with the war in dairy produce raging, Denmark, with her position consolidated, and Russia and others sending reinforcements, good old New Zealand decides that " each factory shall have its individual freedom." The' big mistake made by the soldiers (I only found this out this week myself, when reading of Parliament's endeavours on behalf of our deputy-chair-man) was that we relied on verbal promises before bleeding for our country. We should have got special legislation passed ensuring that we should be paid for protecting the lives and wealth of New Zealand, also fixing our _ superannuation. We got 5s per day with the chance of not drawing to-morrow's pay. Now we are forgotten. A. Spedmng. CHILDREN'S LUNCHES Sir,—l read in the Herald of April 4 that some teachers had told children to eat brown bread, and that the bakers were objecting. The teacher was evidently enthusiastic and loved children and wanted them to have a good start in life and wanted to save them from rickets, goitre and dental caries. All thinking people know that wholemeal bread (not coloured white bread) is far more nourishing than white, but for some reason bakers seem to prefer to sell white bread. A well-known Auckland doctor told me that Aucklanders are very fortunate in having so many bakers making good wholemeal bread. A busy teacher once wrote to me suggesting I should give a delicate child of mine wholemeal bread, fruit, green vegetables and milk. The child was already having these, but I thank that teacher from the bottom of my heart for her interest. I live next door to a school and our fowls share the scraps from school. It makes my heart ache to see day after day a tinful of white bread and am sure if the mothers insisted on wholemeal bread there would not be so much for our fowls. Health First.