SHARING OUR FOOD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25455, 9 February 1944, Page 5

SHARING OUR FOOD

Jim: I see they’re talking about meat being rationed in New Zealand. Bob: Well, why not? It’s rationed in Britain—ls 2d worth a week. Jim: But Britain doesn’t produce enough for herself. We doenough for ourselves and lots for

export. \ Bob: And what about Australia and Canada? They produce more than enough meat for their own use, and yet they have rationed it. . Jim: They must have some special

reason for it. Bob: Of course they have. And the same reason could apply to us in New Zealand. They are doing it so that supplies to Britain can be kept up. Britain needs every bit of food we can send her. It’s

like all rationing; it is fair sharing. Jim. What has fair sharing got to do with keeping up supplies to Eng-

land? Bob: Look here, Jim—we’re all in this war together—Britain and New Zealand and Canada and Australia, and all the rest of us. Britain makes guns and tanks and aeroplanes, and though she could do with everything she makes for her own use she shares these things with us, so that our forces are properly equipped. She makes cotton goods, and even though her own people go short of them she sends us our fair quota of those

goods. Jim: That's true enough. But what has that to do with our meat

and butter? Bob: Just this. We don’t make the things Britain ' does, but we’ve made a special job of producing food—meat and butter, and lots of it. And we ought to share our food production with the people of Britain. They’ve held the fort for us for four years over there. Jim: I sea your point. Bob. We can't live easy in peace and plenty while they go short. And they won’t go short if I can help it.— P.B.A.