PLENTY FOR ALL

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 228, 21 October 1940, Page 3

PLENTY FOR ALL

SHORTAGE DENIED LETTER FROM SCOTLAND Food rationing in Britain is not regarded as much of a hardship by the civil population, according to. a letter received by a Rangiora resident from one of her relatives in Glasgow. The letter was written by a woman with a family of eight. She says that, in spite of the constant threat of air raids, the spirit of the people- is high, Referring to the food supplies, the correspondent says: "There is plenty of everything. The only things that are rationed are sugar, butter, meat and ham.-We get half a pound of sugar a head each week, and when it is finished we find it no hardship to go without. Ido not use all my bacon and butter rations. The prices have gone v$P but so have wages, and we don't have to- stand in queues as we did in the last war to get our haltpound of sugar. We arc certainly not starving, in spite of German propaganda." The letter adds that "there is a hot reception waiting for anj r parachutist who has the misfortune to j land in Scotland."