PRICE OF ISLAND FRUIT
Sir, —It is just about time New Zealand women banded together, raised a ilrs. Pankhurst, and went berserk over the price question of Island fruits, etc. When our job of raising healthy children is to be crippled by monstrous profiteering on their foods, we surely must do something more than mildly remonstrate. W'here is our pride? Where is our will? It is our responsibility not only to unmask but to oust from their positions any body of men who stand in the way of the proper nutrition of children, not to mention the adult. Today there 'are three essentials—food, clothing, shelter. Mothers of New Zealand, have we enough backbone—or haven't we—to see that State profiteering or any lesser form of profiteering has no place over those essentials? Island growers would be incredulous if they could see the number of New Zealand homes in which oranges are the rarest luxury, whereas they should be ordinary daily food. Well, it is up to the women. 0. M. Bryers.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24194, 9 February 1942, Page 2
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