MISS NEW ZEALAND

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26623, 20 November 1947, Page 9

MISS NEW ZEALAND

Sir,—Miss New Zealand will, I understand, arrive in England about the end of what may well prove the hardest winter Britain has ever had to undergo. Cuts mentioned in the papers almost daily would indicate that. People who have been cold and hungry are likely, at times to forget their manners, and it may easily happen that at the end of one of her meetings someone may ask a question like this: Could some of your farmers in New Zealand produce more food for Eritain if most of the extra profits they would earn by doing so were not likely to be swallowed up in high taxation? If this is so, what prevents anything being done about it? Would it not be kind to Miss New Zealand if some of your farming readers were to express their varied opinions on this question, so that she may, at her leisure, prepare from them a reasoned and concise answer, and be able at a moment’s notice, should necessity arise, to reply with something of that charm I am sure she will show in everything else she does.—-I: am, etc., Leslie Sutherland Wellington. Nov. 16.