NATIONAL NUTRITION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1939, Page 3

NATIONAL NUTRITION

WOMEN WHO WO?K WONDERS. “I represent a constituency where the -housewives are famed for their cooking,” said Captain G. S. Elliston. M.P. for Blackburn, speaking in the House of Commons in the debate on nutrition. “They are very remarkable women, and if anybody wants to know what a Lancashire hot-pot is, let them come to Blackburn, where the women can work wonders in their kitchens. But the fact remains that the habits of the people are changing. We have only to look in the shop windows to see the temptations there are to overworked housewives to make use of the fruits of the earth which are brought to England from all parts of the world for their convenience and enjoyment. The shop windows are full of tinned goods, usually of high quality, and in areas especially where women work in the mills and elsewhere it must be a temptation to • them to use the tin-opener instead of undertaking the laborious work of preparing a meal. The great problem we have to solve is how to secure abundant supplies of the protective foods —meat, dairy produce, fruit and vegetables—at prices which people can afford to pay. That is the problem if we are to deal effectively with malnutrition.”