BUTTER RATIONING

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 14, 12 October 1943, Page 4

BUTTER RATIONING

The Hare and the Tortoisie Story It seems there was once a snail who started to climb the trunk of a cherry tree one cold raw morning in July. As lie inched, painfully upwards a wise, guy beetle stuck his head out of a "nearby crack and said: "Hey, swiftly, you're wasting your strength. There aren't any cherries up there." But the snail kept right at it. "There will be when I get, there," he said. j

THERE can be no doubt but that the butter rationing proposal —its implimentation or rejection, is almost wholly dependent upon the manpower question with especial reference to our first primary industry. The fact that the Government is considering at the present time a new scheme for the internal adjustment of the Dominion's manpower and that the effects which such scheme will have, are: described as drastic, is probably a main feature in the Government's plan which may have a heavy bearing on all questions regarding the rationing of home grown foodstuffs.

The Chinese Are Still Wise M times of business depressions in Christian countries a firm naturally drops the least eJTicient employees. But in China, in similar periods, the most efficient employees; are dismissed, first, "because it. is easier for the first-class mechanic to find a job than for the inefficient one. The former can take care of Himself, while the latter may starve. Humanity first, not business, is the Chinese goal.