Boys' Appetites Problem For British Mother

Chronicle (Levin), 22 October 1949, Page 4

Boys' Appetites Problem For British Mother

How to meet the insatiable appetites of schoolboys was the problem always confronting British mothers, said Miss Nelle Scanlon, speaking to the Southern Wellinglon Federation of Women's Institutes in Levin on Wednesday. Miss Scanlon, who was recently in Britain, said that the mothers usually sacrificed much of their own ration to give to their children. Bombs were not falling on England to'day, but the tenseness was still there. The need for food parcels was even greater now than before, as the devaluation of the pound sterling would bring about he need for even greater restrictions. v ■ ■ "We have ha'd a short war in comparison to the rest of the world. * They have had a 'war' for 10 years now." She emphasised" bhe need for the sending of food and more food to Britain, and spoke of the gratitude with which parcels were always received. Dripping and dried milk were two essen'uials. She recalled how she had actuallv had half a sardine on toast — a whole sardine was the ration.