Seventeen Meals A Day
It was stated at a recent meeting of the Taumarunui Hospital Board that a Maori who had been sent to Auckland to be fitted with a wooden leg sent in an account for 17 meals consumed in one day. The Maori, in detailing the account, said he had seven teas and pies on the way to Auckland, and three teas and pies when he arrived there, including two at one place. On his way back to Taumarunui the same day he had seven more teas and pies. A member of the board suggested that next time they sent a Maori patient to Auckland they should call tenders for supplying him with food on the trip.
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Southland Times, Issue 23677, 28 November 1938, Page 15
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119Seventeen Meals A Day Southland Times, Issue 23677, 28 November 1938, Page 15
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