THE LOW-DOWN

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 34, 17 December 1943, Page 5

THE LOW-DOWN

THE SHELLFISH CONTROVERSY

A UCK LANDER'S ILLUMINATING LETTER The broadcasting which has attended the Health Department's ban on the. taking of pi pis from the Whakatane harbour beds, has apparently prompted an Auckland resident to seize on the opportunity of ventillating his opinion against the Government on half a dozen different scores. His letter which was received by the Whakatane Borough Council though headed 'Shellfish Ban,' proceeds to forget them altogether and the writer indulges in an orgy of poisonings from ergot to the 'black death' culminating in a dessertation on the .properties of high and low grade meat. ' ] It reads: - it. is, the Government's ergotised perennial ryegrass pastures which are causing these various animal and human diseases, and because it is the work of the Government Agriculture. and Healtli officials, they deny it. Have you read 'Compost' Novem-ber-December Please read what F. Sykes. states. AVill there be another Black Death? Yes. because we are being poisoned with bad food from these Government certified poisoned ergotised ryegrass pastures. In the Herald of November 13th, 19:51. on meat grading the Hon. D. G. Sullivan M.P., states' that "the public have the assurance of the foremost world authorities. that lower grade meat is equal in nutritional value to the. higher grade." That is definitely a false statement, li enclose notes from Sir (L Staplelon and R. H. Elliots, books on ryegrass Avhich should interest, the council. A. KENT, Rcmuera. ! (Well, what about the shellfish ? | Ed.)