SUGAR SHORTAGE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 306, 20 September 1920, Page 5

SUGAR SHORTAGE

* (To the Editor.) Sir,—l write to tell the president of the Board of Trade that/ lie need not be perturbed if -unable to supply the wants of the whole population with sugar, as I have been able to do without both it and pea since the former became so scarce and the latter so largely increased in price. As a Substitute I take milk and hot waifer at tea-time, and although T work as hard as the average wharf fiuiourer, I have not lost condition during the three months abstinence, and from choice take only oatmeal porridge and, milk for breakfast and bread and cheese for supper. The high cost of living or the cost of high litving does not therefore trouble me personally, and I'm only following out Mr. Massey's boheste to work hard and live allyThe average consumption of sugar in New Zealand, oven now, ia about 2Jlb. per head of the population, including man, woman and child, the largest in •V world, and when the Home consumption fe presently limited to fewer ounces per week it :'s positively indecent; of the members of Parliament and others to mako so much fuss about the present limited supply, as there is not sufficient even to furnish the most; modest needs of the population of the world.—l am, etc., SEPTUAGENARIAN FARMER.