NATIONAL ECONOMY LEAGUE.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14642, 21 February 1918, Page 2

NATIONAL ECONOMY LEAGUE.

THINGS TO BE OBSERVED

The National Economy League of Palmerston North has issued • a pamphlet 'from which the following points are culled:

One ounce of butter wasted daily in each New Zealand home represents 2000 tons a year, the total yield from 32,000 cows.

One ounce of sugar wasted daily in I each New Zealand home means 65,000 i 701b bags in a year. ! One ounce 'of tea Wasted, in each New Zealand home means 455,000 1015 boxes each year. Four ounces of flour wasted daily in each home means the total yield of 110,000 acres of land. Four ounces of meat wasted daily by each household in New Zealand means the loss of 25,000. prime -fat bullocks yearly.

lour ounces of meat wasted daily in each house in New Zealand represents 800,000 fat wethers every year T'le average waste in each of'the 200,O'uO New Zealand homes would feed our whole Expeditionary Forcer, free of ail cost.

By eliminating waste in every house, New Zealand could pay all her taxes and be absolutely free. * Men and women who. believe in plain living and high thinking arc earnestly invited to assist the Voluntary Economy Campaign. By feeding one useless horse in live we prevent the export of 100,000 bullocks yearly. What troubl-.es this country is not the high cost of living, but the cost of i high living;. Men and women of New Zealand will j you help to feed the starving millions | by economising food?. | Spend all your surplus wealth; save ;all your surplus products. Thus you : doubly serve your fellows. « Money spent may serve a more deserving person; food and man power wasted is utterly lost to the world j Lavish living in times of peace leaves ius a surplus from which by economising :we may relieve those etricken by war : famine. •>

Every useless animal we keep consumes, someone's share of food xi; half tlw 40,000 car owners in Zealand each travel but five miles a day for pleasure, we thus burn a quarter or a million cases of benzine annually-

In this world ■ crisis 'it does not S!S y /: ol! cer? «s if individuals squander then* fortunes- but every venfsi^vSL^ WiH help t0

Every person who exercises economy S^ GS a f cd«c«- and adds to the world s supply.