A STAGGERING STATEMENT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 April 1913, Page 4

A STAGGERING STATEMENT.

The Christohurch Press say s that one of the most staggering statements in connection with the Yaldhurst camp is that an average of 2lb of meat, man . per day was provided , arid yet some complained of not having enough. This certainly looks as if either there was waste or the young New Zealander eats more than is good for him. > The English Tommy Atkins gets Jib of meat without hone per day, and appears to find it sufficient. Dr Alexander Bryce, one of the leading authorities in Dietectics, informs us that members of the English middle classes eat 3£lb of meat or its ■ allies per head 'per week, while those of the up. per classes eat close upon 6lb. Doubtless this s latter estimate includes waste, which'' is notoriously larger in the more well-to-do households. The greatest meat-eating nation of the world is Australia, and in the opinion of I)r Bryce "it is probably more than a mere coincidence that this country has also the reputation of consuming per head more pills and potions far the relief of constipation than any other country jin the world." Other authorities attribute the prevalence of rheumatism in these colonies to the excessive amount of meat and tea consumed by rits inhabitants;