TEA RATIONING

Southland Times, Issue 24764, 8 June 1942, Page 3

TEA RATIONING

Sir,—ln your issue of June 3 there appeared a letter signed “T” deploring the unjust rationing of tea. I should say the letter has been written by one who has no family, because of -the whine about a married couple with six young children being entitled to draw lib of tea a week. Poor children! When there’s a war on the children, or girls and boys little older than children, are vaunted as the nation’s most priceless asset, but what encouragement parents get to have and rear families! Let “T.” go and price children’s clothes and footwear and then he’ll see just what a win the family man is on. If he is writing out of pique, let him adopt a child—there are many poor little mites who are waiting to be adopted into a good home —and then he will be in the class favoured by the tea rationing scheme. But the real pettiness of such a complaint was shown vividly wheii one turned the page of your paper and saw a glimpse of the horrors under which men, women and innocent children are living overseas while “T.” squeals about not getting enough tea. If he has to drink water till the end of the war and for six months thereafter, it might clear his vision a bit and enable him to see some of the more important things of life. E. AND J.