OLIVE OIL
WARTIME SHORTAGE HIGHER PRItCES CHARGED Many doctors in the past prescribed a dessert spoonful daily of fresh olive oil for their patients. Some continued to take the oil' for long periods', and one died recently, nearly 100 years old. He attributed his long life to the beneficial effects of the oil. At. first, half a gallon could be bought for 7/6, and this, was six months' supply. At the start* of the war the price doubled, then it rose to 20i/->, and now users say that the latest rise is a "corker.''' It has been bumped' up because the oil is; produced in some of the warring countries' and the trade is undermined. "fit is not generally known," said a medical man recenllyj "that it is no use hoarding olive oil when it is cheap, for in countries where it is prepared it is only considered first-grade when it is used before it is a year old. After that it is considered to have. lost, half its value. Not . till after the war will olive oil be plentiful again. Meanwhile, it will be sparingly used as medicine."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 49, 19 February 1943, Page 2
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189OLIVE OIL Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 49, 19 February 1943, Page 2
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