HOW TO LIVE ON THE LAND
COURSE FOR NEW ZEALAND
SOLDIERS
GROUP IN PACIFIC AREA
A course on "How to live off the land" was taken by a group of Ne,w Zealand soldiers- in the Pacific not long ago t writes an English newspaper. A missionary organised the course and about a dozen natives helped them to get the foods ( fish' and other necessary things. One native. was allotted to each group ol four soldiers and they were together for lour days. The natives showed the soldiers the specimen? first then the men had to collect them out of a native garden and cook them under the guidance ol i* native "boy."
The soldiers had a day's fishing and then they had to go out. into the jungle for a day with no rations t there, to gather and bring bacx. enough food for two meals and eooU one themselves. They collected yams, tare root, native spinach bananas, sugar cane, and some nuts.
The methods of. cooking were interesting such as- roasting on hot stones and boiling in coconut milkTlie latter makes spinach taste delicious and spinach done, up in n banana leaf and roasted is also good.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 24, 14 November 1944, Page 5
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198HOW TO LIVE ON THE LAND Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 24, 14 November 1944, Page 5
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