BEND BUTTER.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1916, Page 6

BEND BUTTER.

To the Editoi. . Sir,—There are three classes of people to whom these words are, with your kind permission, directed, viz,, those that send parcels to the soldiers regularly; those that would like to send ofteffer and don't know what to send; and the swine who never send even a newspaper, and for whom I am sorry good men are fighting, -Well, yesterday I got two letters from the front.' One from Camp Maisa Matruh said: ''Parcel of butter arrived safe and sound. It was really and truly a God-send in that sandy desert. It was in a perfect state of preservation, and luckily the day it arrived wo got fresh bread issue," etc. The other letter, from Moasear Camp, ismailia, says: "Tin of buttei arrived yesterday, and it is.in very good condition, and was very Welcome, as butter does not appear on our ration, and the mixture called butter that is sold in the canteens is vile, and the M.O. has warned us against buying; it." The butter wc sent in 31b tins .was creamery (not v.hey). fn connection with butter, when Parliament opens I shall ask Messrs Okey and Wjlkinson to get the name of the contractor for butter on some of the troopships; especially the Maunganui. One mail, who is I'ery fond of butter wrote that he never tasted the buttei all the time he was on board, and another Eltham ■ man wrote to his fattier that "tho tiieker, especially the butter, wa: so rotten that one day the men were looking lor ball cartridges, and then things improved 1 :" Anyhow, from a district liue -Taranakr every man who goes to the front should have Ins tin of milk and butter, with a tin of tongues or fruit every week. Since my son and son-in-law Went, six to ten tins of stuff goes to them weekly, including Glaxo (dried milk), as it woiild choke anyone with a spark of feeling to be revelling in milk, as most Taranakians are, and their boys drinking black tea and eating dry bread. Of course, the swine I have referred to don't care about sharing any of the good things tliev may have.—l am, etc., W. f. WRIGHT. 'iahotu, April 12.