Butter Rationing: Watersiders’ Views

Grey River Argus, 12 November 1948, Page 6

Butter Rationing: Watersiders’ Views

WELLINGTON, November 11. Despite the contention by the chairman of tlie Aid-to-Britain national council, Mr F. P. Walsh, that butter rationing must continue in New Zealand, the people would overwhelmingly retain the opinion that rationing "was inequitable and farcical, the national ollice of the New Zealand Waterside Workers’ Union said in a statement to-day. The Union said it had already indicated that its members, in justice to the housewives and children of New Zealand, should not load butter ■shipments for countries other than Britain during the present rationing, and nothing in Mr Walsh's statement alttered that attitude. To justify the retention of rationing, Mr Walsh should, said the Union, show its application was universal and equitable. People in .the cities and towns suffered a shortage, while country people experienced no hardship, anil on that ground alone the Government should discontinue rationing. . . In connection with the shipping of butter from rationed New Zealand to unrationed Canada, the Union said the latest copy of an Ottawa newspaper contained an advertisement for “foil—wrapped first grade creamery butter”, as a "daily special”. The Union said Canada should first put its own house in order by controlling sales, and any exhortations to New Zealanders to eat more drippingshould first be addressed to Canadians. The Union said the Government should publish details of all the shipments of New Zealand butter to countries other than Britain and the transhipments to those countries since rationing was applied.