COMMODITY RATIONING

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 56, 29 November 1946, Page 2

COMMODITY RATIONING

j STILL VITALLY NECESSARY CANDIDATE’S STRONG VIEWS In answer to Mr Sullivan’s statement that tea and sugar rationing should be lifted at once as there was now no further reason for their retention, Mr R. Boord, Labour candidate for the Bay of Plenty, said last Saturday evening that whilst there might not be any need to preserve rationing as far as this country was concerned there were other countries where there was still the dix'est need. “Why,” said Mr Boord. “In Italy I have seen the kids fighting for the scraps from your plate. We have no conception of w’hat it is like. I was in England less than a year ago and in an unguarded moment I accepted an invitation to lunch. It was quite a well-to-do family too, but all I got was half a tin of bully beef. I returned with two hampers full of goods, which the family accepted with tears in their eyes. People in New Zealand have no idea of what conditions are really like. Today those very people in Britain who stood in the forefront of battle and hurled defiance at the enemy were now stinting themselves in order to .feed the very people they had lately been fighting. They were doing this to prevent starvation and disease because they knew that such an outbreak as that which followed the last war would endanger the world. “If,” said Mr Boord, “they are stll prepared to do that for us, I for one will not be an advocate of the lifting of any rationing just yet!”