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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 30, Issue 19, 8 March 1918, Page 8

“One ounce of butter wasted daily in each N.Z. home represents 2000 tons a year, the total yield from 32,000 cows.*’ j “We will be short of everything after the war, except debts and taxes,” said Mr A. R. Atkinson, at Wellington, when pleading in the course of an addfess on social and economic conditions following peace, for rigid national economy. He stated that he was quite satisfied, from his own observation, that economy was in no way a colonial virtue, and it was almost unknown in New Zealand. The Rev. H. Watson stated that his parish—St. Peter ’a — was supposed to contain some of the poorest quarters in Wellington, but since the war there had been scarcely any poverty. Charitable institutions had also reported a decline in their activities. He often wondered, he said, how long it would last, and he felt convinced that the people were not making adequate preparation for less happy conditions which were bound to come sooner or later.